{"id":24883,"date":"2025-05-22T19:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24883"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:47:38","slug":"thelma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/thelma\/","title":{"rendered":"Thelma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I think I know her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thelma<\/strong>, released in 2024<\/p>\n<p>Thelma is 93 and a call supposedly from her grandson saying he&#8217;s in jail leads her to send a lot of money in the mail. But the she finds out it was a scam. The police can&#8217;t really help. Thelma decides to do what Tom Cruise would do, and tracks down the address of the scammer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the pitfalls and joys of being old.<\/p>\n<p>I like how Thelma keeps running into people she thinks she might know.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is absolutely thrilling and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>Parker Posey and Clark Gregg are brilliant as always. June Squibb is delightful.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Richard Roundtree, Fred Hechinger, and Malcolm McDowell. Directed by Josh Margolin (his first movie). The spy-mission music by Nick Chuba is terrific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I think I know her.&#8221; Thelma, released in 2024 Thelma is 93 and a call supposedly from her grandson saying he&#8217;s in jail leads her to send a lot of money in the mail. But the she finds out it was a scam. The police can&#8217;t really help. Thelma decides to do what Tom [&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":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883","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=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24887,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions\/24887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}