{"id":626,"date":"2003-09-12T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/626.html"},"modified":"2003-09-12T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T16:49:25","slug":"have-i-got-a-movie-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/have-i-got-a-movie-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Have I got a movie for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually do this, but I wanted to recommend that everyone run out this weekend to see a movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/matchstickmenmovie.warnerbros.com\/\">Matchstick Men<\/a> (opening today in theaters nationwide).<\/p>\n<p>First of all, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/MatchstickMen-1125588\/\">a great flick<\/a>. As Richard Roeper, of Ebert &#038; Roeper fame, said, &#8220;[I]t&#8217;s just a joy to see a film like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It stars Academy Award nominee Nicolas Cage and was directed by the legendary Sir Ridley Scott, who also directed classics such as Gladiator, Thelma &#038; Louise, Alien, and Blade Runner.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the movie is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375505229\/qid=1063380927\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-8424700-1642223?v=glance&#038;s=books\">a book<\/a> written by a friend of mine from high school, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericgarcia.com\/\">Eric Garcia<\/a>, a prodigiously-talented writer and all-around good guy.<\/p>\n<p>Go. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually do this, but I wanted to recommend that everyone run out this weekend to see a movie called Matchstick Men (opening today in theaters nationwide). First of all, it&#8217;s a great flick. As Richard Roeper, of Ebert &#038; Roeper fame, said, &#8220;[I]t&#8217;s just a joy to see a film like this.&#8221; It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}