The Paper Chase (film)

The Paper Chase is a 1973 film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman, directed by James Bridges.

James Hart Timothy Bottoms starts his first year at Harvard Law School in a very bad way. In his contract law course with Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. John Houseman, he assumes the first class will be an outline of the course. When Kingsfield immediately delves into the material using the Socratic method and asks Hart the first question, he is totally unprepared and feels so utterly humiliated that, after class, he throws up in the bathroom.While out getting pizza, he is picked up by an attractive woman, Susan Fields Lindsay Wagner. On their second date, they end up in bed. Their relationship is complex she resents the time he devotes to his studies, while he is unable to get her to make a firm commitment. When Hart and his classmates are invited to a cocktail party hosted by Kingsfield, he is stunned to discover that Susan is Kingsfields married daughter. She is, however, separated from her husband and eventually gets a divorce. She and Hart break up and get back together several times. ........

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