{"id":681,"date":"2012-10-06T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicebyrd.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2012-10-15T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T17:55:40","slug":"movie-trouble-with-the-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/movie-trouble-with-the-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Trouble with the Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Clint Eastwood plays a broken-down, professional baseball scout in the last three months of his contract. His physical ailments are making it increasingly difficult for him to do his job the way he\u2019s always done it\u2014watching and evaluating high school ball players across the country for hours and days at a time. Amy Adams plays the scout\u2019s grown child who\u2019s struggling to maintain a relationship with her emotionally distant father.<\/p>\n

Eastwood\u2019s rough exterior and Adam\u2019s romantic interests keep the story from lapsing into a psychological study of why and how this father\/daughter relationship came to be so estranged. On the surface, there are plenty of obvious reasons\u2014widower raising young girl alone, workaholic daughter trying to please her distant father, and years of not communicating and making assumptions.<\/p>\n

The PG-13 rating comes from all the crude, high school guy-talk and the profane jargon we\u2019re used to in an Eastwood character. With the professional baseball setting, I\u2019m not sure the language is all gratuitous, but it seems so coming from Ms Adams despite her excuse that she learned it from her father.<\/p>\n

Screen writers love to use baseball as a metaphor for life, and so it is with this movie, certainly the title. When life throws us a curve ball (something that turns out to be quite different from what we first expected), how we respond will determine our opportunities for the future. Trouble with the Curve <\/em>is a simple story, well-acted, and true enough to be believable if not a little two-dimensional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clint Eastwood plays a broken-down, professional baseball scout in the last three months of his contract. His physical ailments are making it increasingly difficult for him to do his job the way he\u2019s always done it\u2014watching and evaluating high school ball players across the country for hours and days at a time. Amy Adams plays […] Read more…<\/a><\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}