{"id":4559,"date":"2014-02-13T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T02:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2014-02-17T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:34:07","slug":"starter-for-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/starter-for-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Starter for 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Ever since I can remember, I&#8217;ve wanted to be clever. Some people are born clever, same way some people are born beautiful. I&#8217;m not one of those people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brian is just starting university and he&#8217;s excited to be on the challenge team, who competes in a televised quiz show that he used to watch all the time. His father died years ago and his mother now has a boyfriend. Brian is enamored of Alice, who is on the challenge team with him. Then there&#8217;s Rebecca, who&#8217;s frequently handing out flyers and participating in demonstrations. When Brian makes a big mistake, how will he be able to show his face again?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starter for 10<\/strong> was released in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about old friends and new friends and learning from your mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>The general storyline might not be anything new, but the actors will draw you in to this particular story.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good movie but not quite a great one &#8212; it needed a little something more to distinguish itself.*<\/p>\n<p>The movie takes place in the 1980s, and the soundtrack is filled with 80s pop songs.<\/p>\n<p>James McAvoy (<strong>X-Men: First Class<\/strong>) plays Brian and Rebecca Hall (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/iron-man-3\/\"><strong>Iron Man 3<\/strong><\/a>) plays Rebecca. Alice Eve (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/star-trek-into-darkness\/\"><strong>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/strong><\/a>) plays Alice and Benedict Cumberbatch (<strong>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/strong>) plays Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Tom Vaughan (<strong>Extraordinary Measures<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Boy meets stuck-up girl, boy falls for girl, boy meets nice girl, boy becomes friends with girl, boy eventually realizes he&#8217;s in love with nice girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Ever since I can remember, I&#8217;ve wanted to be clever. Some people are born clever, same way some people are born beautiful. I&#8217;m not one of those people.&#8221; Brian is just starting university and he&#8217;s excited to be on the challenge team, who competes in a televised quiz show that he used to watch [&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-4559","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\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}