{"id":3411,"date":"2013-09-20T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T23:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2014-02-17T18:51:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T23:51:27","slug":"the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perks of Being a Wallflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were no one would ever talk to you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie&#8217;s aunt was killed in an accident and his best friend committed suicide a few months ago. Now he&#8217;s starting high school &#8212; most of the kids either ignore him or treat him badly. He makes two friends, though &#8212; Patrick, an older student from his shop class, and Sam, Patrick&#8217;s stepsister. They take him to a party, where the kids call themselves wallflowers, and to <strong>Rocky Horror<\/strong>. Charlie likes Sam, but will he be able to tell her?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/strong> was released in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about growing up, friendship, love, and getting help when you need it.<\/p>\n<p>The three leads are all fabulous &#8212; watching Emma Watson, you won&#8217;t be thinking about Hermione Granger once.<\/p>\n<p>Wisdom from Charlie&#8217;s English teacher: &#8220;We accept the love we think we deserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is an amazing movie &#8212; even if you don&#8217;t usually watch &#8220;this type of movie,&#8221; I encourage you to seek it out.<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack is filled with pop songs.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Watson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/harry-potter\/\"><strong>Harry Potter<\/strong><\/a>) plays Sam. Logan Lerman (<strong>Percy Jackson<\/strong>) plays Charlie and Ezra Miller (<strong>We Need to Talk About Kevin<\/strong>) plays Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>Mae Whitman (the TV show <strong>Arrested Development<\/strong>) plays Mary Elizabeth. Paul Rudd (<strong>Monsters vs Aliens<\/strong>) plays Charlie&#8217;s English teacher and Dylan McDermott (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/in-the-line-of-fire\/\"><strong>In the Line of Fire<\/strong><\/a>) plays Charlie&#8217;s dad.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Stephen Chbosky (creator of the TV show <strong>Jericho<\/strong>). Chbosky also wrote the book that the movie is based on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were no one would ever talk to you?&#8221; Charlie&#8217;s aunt was killed in an accident and his best friend committed suicide a few months ago. Now he&#8217;s starting high school &#8212; most of the kids either ignore him or treat him badly. He makes [&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-3411","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\/3411","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=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}