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...Dupreeis the modern, or slacker, version of that story. Owen Wilson's Randolph Dupree is not contemptuous of middle-class values. He's a sweet-spirited perpetual adolescent, who has lost his job, his car and his apartment and lacks any skills the job market might conceivably require. So he moves his beanbag chair and his moose head into the tidy little craftsman bungalow inhabited by his best friend, Carl (Matt Dillon) and his new bride, Molly (Kate Hudson). He means to be helpful, but continually screws up in ways that are meant to be funny, but are, in fact...
...government work." So the Best and the Brightest believe there's no excitement or pulse in federal service. Even graduate schools that are supposed to train students for government can't convince them to work there. In 1961, Charles and Marie Robinson gave $35 million to Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to ensure its students are groomed for government service. A couple years ago, the Robinsons sued Princeton - because the grad school sends only 12% of its grads into federal service. Everyone expected a spike in public service after 9/11, but it has not materialized...
...OWEN WILSON...
...Owen Wilson plays Dupree, a houseguest who doesn't know when to leave, in You, Me and Dupree...
...relate to in this film--the guest or the hosts? I've been a Dupree, but I've also experienced a Dupree. My older brother Andrew blames Luke [Wilson] and me for the rapid disintegration of his first marriage. We were always at his house. Then I had this great girl I was living with, and he moved in, and the Ping-Pong table replaced the dining-room table, and the motorcycle got parked inside, and before you know it, she was gone...