{"id":1707,"date":"2005-09-08T23:30:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1707.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","slug":"antwone-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/09\/08\/antwone-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Antwone Fisher<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antwone Fisher, a young Navy seaman, overcomes his violent tendencies and abusive childhood to find a side of himself he has kept hidden for years.  It has a touch of the <i>Good Will Hunting<\/i> about it, with Denzel Washington playing a psychiatrist who is somewhat repressed himself, helping the promising kid recognize his own greatness, and learning a valuable lesson in the process himself.  But the story isn&#8217;t so much about embracing your opportunities as about taking control of your self, and realizing that although your past can shape you, it doesn&#8217;t define you.  <\/p>\n<p>This is Denzel Washington&#8217;s directorial debut, and the only point where he sets a foot wrong is right at the very end, where he gives his own character an awkward &#8220;you helped me more than I helped you&#8221; speech.  Yuck.  It&#8217;s Derek Luke who steals the show, though.  His performance as Antwone Fisher, from repressed anger to awkwardly romantic, is extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antwone Fisher, a young Navy seaman, overcomes his violent tendencies and abusive childhood to find a side of himself he has kept hidden for years. It has a touch of the Good Will Hunting about it, with Denzel Washington playing a psychiatrist who is somewhat repressed himself, helping the promising kid recognize his own greatness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}