A conflict between the intellectual and emotional side of a law student
I remember The Paper Chase as a TV series when I was a kid but I never watched it. Now over 40 years later I’m finally finding out what it was all about by watching the movie the show was based upon.<br /><br />The film is about the fight between the intellectual and emotional side of Timothy Bottoms who is a freshman at Harvard law school. On the one hand he feels like he has to organize his entire life to deal with his studies. On the other he’s involved with Lindsay Wagner who hates that type of person. It’s posed as a conflict between the rational and irrational and asks which side will win.<br /><br />It also gives a view into being a student at an elite educational institution. There are the scary professors. The students who are intimidated and those who are intimidating. The pettiness, the competition, the strain and stress, etc.<br /><br />It’s a very intellectual movie befitting the subject matter. Bottoms goes into these long monologues about how he thinks his life has to be and what it means to be at Harvard Law. I found it intriguing and the ending was great.
The movie title "Paper Chase, The," available on Prime Video, has received an average rating of 4.6 from 1457 reviewers. 
It features elements such as IMDb 7.2, 1 h 51 min, 1973, X-Ray and PG, and it is priced at $9.99.

This title falls under the categories of Comedy, Drama, Bold and Cerebral. 
The additional details include the following in key-value format :
 {"Audio languages": ["English"], "Subtitles": ["English [CC]"], "Directors": ["Bridges", "James"], "Producers": ["Robert C. Thompson", "Roderick Paul"], "Starring": ["Timothy Bottoms", "John Houseman", "Lindsay Wagner"]}

Here is a brief synopsis of the title : A naive first year Harvard Law student adapts to the stress and pressures of the classroom but may have taken on too much when he starts an affair with the daughter of the instructor he admires the most, the ego deflating Professor Kingsfield..