Sorry Revenge Of The Nerds, but this is the premier campus comedy for eggheads

One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: School’s out for summer. Celebrate the end of a semester (or just the release of Neighbors 2) with these unconventional campus comedies.
Wonder Boys (2000)
Wonder Boys is an unusually shaggy prestige picture. It’s outfitted top to bottom with esteemed, awards-ready talent, yet it has a sense of absurdity and delicacy. The film is set in an unnamed Pittsburgh university during a long weekend’s festival for visiting writers, so it’s certainly a campus comedy, with lots of wandering, tangential asides… only it’s pitched at eggheads or eggheads in training, rather than the rowdy frat boys or jocks that usually figure in American cinema’s campus escapades. This is the kind of campus movie in which someone is less likely to chug a beer than read an unpublished novel while melancholically smoking a joint in a beat-up car against picturesque snowfall.