The Paper Chase is a 1973 film starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, and John Houseman and directed by James Bridges. Based on John Jay Osborn, Jr.'s 1970 novel, The Paper Chase, the film tells the story of Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School, and his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield , the brilliant, demanding contracts instructor whom he both idolizes and finds incredibly intimidating. Houseman later reprised his role in a TV series of the same name that lasted four seasons. Expecting only the basic pressures of attending Harvard Law School, a serious,... hard-working student named James Hart , a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, finds himself the fearful adversary of the school's most imperious, sardonic contracts professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. . Their relationship grows even more complex when the young man discovers that the woman he is dating, Susan Fields , is his professor's daughter. Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann, and James Naughton co-star as other law students.
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| Release date: | October 16, 1973 |
| Directed by: | James Bridges |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Robert C. Thompson, Rodrick Paul |
| Editor: | Walter A. Thompson |
| Music by: | John Williams |
| Cinematography: | Gordon Willis |
| Screenplay by: | James Bridges |
| Adapted from: | The Paper Chase |