{"id":2973,"date":"2013-06-22T20:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2013-06-22T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T00:51:11","slug":"people-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/people-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"People Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I hope you never have to know what it&#8217;s like to love someone and then find out you&#8217;re not enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sam works for a company that facilitates barters between companies who have leftover stock. He&#8217;s a great salesman but he made a mistake on one of his deals and now he has to bribe someone at the Federal Trade Commission or else he&#8217;ll lose his job. At the same time his father has died. He didn&#8217;t have a very good relationship with his father but he goes home for the funeral. While there he discovers a shocking family secret.*<\/p>\n<p><strong>People Like Us<\/strong> was released in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the unexpected things that happen when you&#8217;re a member of a family. It&#8217;s about trying to understand why people do the things they do.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it a lot &#8212; it&#8217;s a different story, one worth telling.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Pine is following in the footsteps of Paul Giamatti in his ability to portray a character who has some large flaws but we like him anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Pine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/star-trek-into-darkness\/\"><strong>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/strong><\/a>) plays Sam. Elizabeth Banks (<strong>Definitely, Maybe<\/strong>) plays Frankie and Michael Hall D&#8217;Addario (<strong>Sinister<\/strong>) plays Josh. Michelle Pfeiffer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/dark-shadows\/\"><strong>Dark Shadows<\/strong><\/a>) plays Sam&#8217;s mom and Olivia Wilde (<strong>In Time<\/strong>) plays Sam&#8217;s girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Favreau (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/iron-man-3\/\"><strong>Iron Man 3<\/strong><\/a>), Mark Duplass (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/your-sisters-sister\/\"><strong>Your Sister&#8217;s Sister<\/strong><\/a>), and\u00a0Philip Baker Hall (<strong>Bruce Almighty<\/strong>) have smaller roles.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Alex Kurtzman (writer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/star-trek\/\"><strong>Star Trek<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*He has a sister and a nephew he never knew about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I hope you never have to know what it&#8217;s like to love someone and then find out you&#8217;re not enough.&#8221; Sam works for a company that facilitates barters between companies who have leftover stock. He&#8217;s a great salesman but he made a mistake on one of his deals and now he has to bribe [&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-2973","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\/2973","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=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}