{"id":2520,"date":"2013-03-23T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2013-03-23T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T00:20:10","slug":"thats-what-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/thats-what-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s What I Am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It took maybe 30 seconds for word of Mary Clear and my impending union to cover the school ground like a suffocating fog. If only our fire drills were that organized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andy is in grade 8 in the 1960s &#8212; his favourite teacher is Mr. Simon. But then Mr. Simon pairs Andy with &#8220;Big G&#8221; for an assignment &#8212; although &#8220;Big G,&#8221; whose real name is Stanley, is smart everyone makes fun of him because of his big head and awkwardness. Andy likes Mary, a beautiful girl in his class, but he&#8217;s never even talked to her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s What I Am<\/strong> was released in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful movie about tolerance &#8212; some kids in grade 8 are just learning it. Some adults have learned it, and some haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>There are parts that are funny and sad, and it seems to me to do a good job of creating a 1960s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Harris (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/the-way-back\/\"><strong>The Way Back<\/strong><\/a>) plays Mr. Simon. Chase Ellison (<strong>Mysterious Skin<\/strong>) plays Andy. Amy Madigan (<strong>Field of Dreams<\/strong>) plays the school principal. Daniel Roebuck (<strong>U. S. Marshals<\/strong>) plays Andy&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Michael Pavone (<strong>Chameleon<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;It took maybe 30 seconds for word of Mary Clear and my impending union to cover the school ground like a suffocating fog. If only our fire drills were that organized.&#8221; Andy is in grade 8 in the 1960s &#8212; his favourite teacher is Mr. Simon. But then Mr. Simon pairs Andy with &#8220;Big [&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":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}