{"id":40,"date":"2007-01-20T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2007-12-09T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T22:49:06","slug":"sam-the-man-is-a-terrific-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Sam the Man is a Terrific Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0196068\/\">Sam the          Man is a Terrific Film<\/a>  It&#8217;s about a blocked novelist who struggles with infidelity.  Sam the Man is the first time I&#8217;ve disagreed with the rankings on imdb.com,          which I&#8217;ve usually found to be the best gauge of a movie. IMDB.com gave          it a 3.6 on a 1-10 scale, probably because it was shot on digital video.  <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.aol.com\/movie\/sam-the-man\/1257000\/synopsis\">Brian          J. Dillard in the All Movie Guide writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director            Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens            stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt            who can&#8217;t seem to deliver the follow-up. Instead, he spends his time            compulsively cheating on his photographer girlfriend, Cass (Annabella            Sciorra); giving the runaround to his agent, Richard (Ron Rifkin); and            trying to keep his landlord, Murray (Luis Guzman), at bay. Things take            a turn for the worse when the husband of one of Sam&#8217;s conquests (Maria            Bello) confronts him, leaving Sam covered in hard-to-explain injuries.            Soon, with the help of his barkeep brother, Lorenzo (Saverio Guerra),            Sam is holding down a day job for the first time in years and reexamining            every aspect of his life. After the success of Tadpole, the Independent            Film Channel picked up Sam the Man for broadcast on cable television.            The film&#8217;s cast, filled with notable and lesser-known New York actors,            includes George Plimpton, Griffin Dunne, and Rob Morrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdverdict.com\/reviews\/samman.php\">Here&#8217;s a contrary          view<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s an interesting idea for a movie contained in the final scenes            of Sam The Man, about a writer who deliberately sabotages his personal            relationships so that he&#8217;ll have something to write about. By the time            we&#8217;ve gotten there, though, it&#8217;s too little too late &sbquo;&Auml;&igrave; we&#8217;ve already been            forced to sit through the self-involved, depressing little tale of a            self-involved, depressing little man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam the Man is a Terrific Film It&#8217;s about a blocked novelist who struggles with infidelity. Sam the Man is the first time I&#8217;ve disagreed with the rankings on imdb.com, which I&#8217;ve usually found to be the best gauge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}