{"id":999,"date":"2004-03-22T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T00:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-999.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"intolerable-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/03\/22\/intolerable-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Intolerable Cruelty<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one-joke films go, it&#8217;s not bad: hot-shot divorce lawyer falls in love with serial fortune-hunter, and they begin a merry dance that will eventually lead them into each other&#8217;s arms.  I&#8217;m sure it would have made a charming 1950s romantic comedy with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.  The Coen brothers, however, have managed to turn this promising idea into a stilted, passionless slapstick.  In their drive to show how crafty and scheming the two protagonists are, they fail to build any sympathy for them.  There is on-screen chemistry between George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones, but I couldn&#8217;t see any reason to care about it.  This is what happens when you take &#8220;quirky&#8221; and &#8220;clever&#8221; a couple of steps too far.  Entertaining and funny, but lacking in warmth and wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one-joke films go, it&#8217;s not bad: hot-shot divorce lawyer falls in love with serial fortune-hunter, and they begin a merry dance that will eventually lead them into each other&#8217;s arms. I&#8217;m sure it would have made a charming 1950s romantic comedy with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. The Coen brothers, however, have managed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}