{"id":4663,"date":"2014-03-09T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2014-03-09T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T22:38:14","slug":"the-spectacular-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-spectacular-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spectacular Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I like to think there&#8217;s more to a person than just one thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sutter is a partier whose last girlfriend broke up with him over a misunderstanding. He&#8217;s been hanging out with Amiee, a nice girl whom he&#8217;s grown to like a lot. They&#8217;re about to graduate high school, and he doesn&#8217;t think their relationship will last long. Sutter hasn&#8217;t seen his dad in years and his mom won&#8217;t tell him where he is. Amiee&#8217;s mom delivers newspapers but Amiee does a lot of the work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spectacular Now<\/strong> was released in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about figuring out who you are and what you want to do with the rest of your life, or at least the next phase.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another movie about teens and their problems, but it&#8217;s well done &#8212; it had a certain realism that some movies lack.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fairly serious, although there are funny parts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great movie, with fabulous performances from the two leads.<\/p>\n<p>Shailene Woodley (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-descendants\/\"><strong>The Descendants<\/strong><\/a>) plays Amiee and Miles Teller (<strong>Rabbit Hole<\/strong>) plays Sutter. Jennifer Jason Leigh\u00a0(<strong>eXistenZ<\/strong>) plays Sutter&#8217;s mom.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by James Ponsoldt (<strong>Smashed<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I like to think there&#8217;s more to a person than just one thing.&#8221; Sutter is a partier whose last girlfriend broke up with him over a misunderstanding. He&#8217;s been hanging out with Amiee, a nice girl whom he&#8217;s grown to like a lot. They&#8217;re about to graduate high school, and he doesn&#8217;t think their [&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":[15,6,5,53],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","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=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}