{"id":230,"date":"2003-03-30T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2003-03-30T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2012-05-03T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:41:53","slug":"hot-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/03\/hot-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"_Hot Pursuit_"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think every female who was young in the 80s fell in love with John Cusack after <em>Say Anything<\/em>. On the basis of the Cusack&#8217;s picture on the cover, I rented <em>Hot Pursuit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What a movie! all notmals boundaries of the plausible are thrown out the window. It starts with Cusack&#8217;s girlfriend sneaking into his all-boys&#8217; high school and keeping him from passing his chemistry final. It ends with Cusack throwing grenades and firing a machine gun to save her from pirates.<\/p>\n<p>He flunks his chemistry test, so he can&#8217;t go on the cruise to the Carribean with her rich family. BUt it&#8217;s true teenage love! So he finds a way to follow her and just miss her for the whole vacation.<\/p>\n<p>As unbelievably cheesy as it is, Cesack still pulled off his &#8216;boyfriend&#8217; role perfectly. Maybe that&#8217;s his whole genius. The man gives a perfect movie kiss. With the little funny, awkward wisecrack beforehand. It works.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a good <em>King Lear <\/em>scene where he curses the storm (he&#8217;s in a boat).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think every female who was young in the 80s fell in love with John Cusack after Say Anything. On the basis of the Cusack&#8217;s picture on the cover, I rented Hot Pursuit. What a movie! all notmals boundaries of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/03\/hot-pursuit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}