{"id":4673,"date":"2014-03-09T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2014-03-09T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:11:05","slug":"in-a-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/in-a-world\/","title":{"rendered":"In a World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I just want to give you my card. I&#8217;m not a vocal coach anymore, but I would make an exception for you because you sound like a squeaky toy. And I don&#8217;t mean that in a bad way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carol works freelance as a voice coach and lives with her father, Sam, who does voiceovers. When Sam&#8217;s new girlfriend is about to move in he kicks Carol out. The king of voiceovers, who has died, used to often start a trailer with the words &#8220;In a world&#8230;&#8221; That phrase is coming back, and Sam wants his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 to be the one to speak it. But Carol thinks it&#8217;s time for a woman&#8217;s voice to be heard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a World&#8230;<\/strong> was released in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much of a splash this movie made when it came out but it deserved to make a big one. It&#8217;s unique and very funny.<\/p>\n<p>The characters are not your average movie characters and will surprise you several times.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Bell (the TV show <strong>Boston Legal<\/strong>) plays Carol and Demetri Martin (<strong>Contagion<\/strong>) plays her frequent co-worker Louis. Fred Melamed (<strong>A Serious Man<\/strong>) plays Sam and Alexandra Holden (<strong>Sugar &amp; Spice<\/strong>) plays his much younger girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Michaela Watkins (<strong>Enough Said<\/strong>) plays Carol&#8217;s sister and Rob Corddry (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/warm-bodies\/\"><strong>Warm Bodies<\/strong><\/a>) plays her brother-in-law. Nick Offerman (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/kings-of-summer\/\"><strong>Kings of Summer<\/strong><\/a>) and Geena Davis (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/quick-change\/\"><strong>Quick Change<\/strong><\/a>) also have parts. Look for Cameron Diaz (<strong>Being John Malkovich<\/strong>) in the movie within the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Lake Bell (her first as director).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I just want to give you my card. I&#8217;m not a vocal coach anymore, but I would make an exception for you because you sound like a squeaky toy. And I don&#8217;t mean that in a bad way.&#8221; Carol works freelance as a voice coach and lives with her father, Sam, who does voiceovers. [&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":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","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=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}