{"id":13568,"date":"2019-01-05T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13568"},"modified":"2020-10-17T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T20:18:42","slug":"a-simple-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-simple-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen him with his wife. Let me tell you, they&#8217;ve got more chemistry than a science fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Simple Favor<\/strong>, released in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie&#8217;s friend Emily is missing. They&#8217;ve only been friends for a few weeks &#8212; their sons go to school together. They&#8217;ve bonded over martinis. At least, Stephanie thinks they have. One dad at school thinks that Emily is using Stephanie as an unpaid nanny.<\/p>\n<p>This is a comedy that turns into a mystery. The first part is hilarious and the last part is thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s delightful from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Cardellini has a small but memorable role as a tortured artist.<\/p>\n<p>Stars&nbsp;Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. Directed by Paul Feig (the TV show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/freaks-and-geeks-season-1\/\"><strong>Freaks and Geeks<\/strong><\/a>). Much of the soundtrack consists of catchy French songs from the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen him with his wife. Let me tell you, they&#8217;ve got more chemistry than a science fair.&#8221; A Simple Favor, released in 2018 Stephanie&#8217;s friend Emily is missing. They&#8217;ve only been friends for a few weeks &#8212; their sons go to school together. They&#8217;ve bonded over martinis. At least, Stephanie thinks they have. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,15,6,5],"class_list":["post-13568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13568"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16831,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568\/revisions\/16831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}