{"id":11,"date":"2008-05-09T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T17:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-05-11T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T00:52:00","slug":"eat-drink-man-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Eat Drink Man Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/images\/edmw.jpg\" alt=\"Eat Drink Man Woman\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Chris, &#8220;Eat Drink Man Woman&#8221; was the sentence that Arnold Swarzenegger used when asking Maria Shriver on their first date.  Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, as opposed to Arnold&#8217;s apocryphal sentence, is great bit of classic film-making; Lee starts off by coloring in his blank canvas with lush detail and character-building, to the extent that one begins to wonder whether anything much is going to happen.  It&#8217;s just at that point when things do begin to happen, and happen aplenty. Since we&#8217;ve taken a bit of time to get to know the characters, we now have a vested interest in what happens to them.<\/p>\n<p>A poignant family drama with plenty of humor (and a great twist at the end!), filmed in a beautifully classic style, this was a great MovieNight choice. Hats off to Andy once more&#8230; he can add this one to his impressive <a title=\"Suggestions we've taken\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=12\" target=\"_self\">list of suggestions<\/a> !<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0111797\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/images\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"IMDB\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Chris, &#8220;Eat Drink Man Woman&#8221; was the sentence that Arnold Swarzenegger used when asking Maria Shriver on their first date. Hmmm. The movie, as opposed to Arnold&#8217;s apocryphal sentence, is great bit of classic film-making; Lee starts off by coloring in his blank canvas with lush detail and character-building, to the extent that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eat Drink Man Woman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}