{"id":3522,"date":"2016-06-30T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2024-08-03T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T20:53:27","slug":"hope-springs-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Hope Springs-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hope Springs-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director David Frankel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott\u2019s Review #434<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70230548.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3523\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70230548-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70230548\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70230548-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70230548.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hope Springs (2012) is a cute, lighthearted romantic comedy-drama with enormous talent (it is tough to go wrong with heavyweights like Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones).<\/p>\n<p>The story tells of a middle-aged, married couple who reach the point of boredom in their long marriage. They decide to go away on a retreat to repair their marriage and add some spark.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the movie in a nutshell.<\/p>\n<p>There are no surprises to speak of and I expected a bit more from this film given the talent involved. It has safely written all over it, and while nice, it could have been much more.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the reason for the conflict? They suddenly reach a point of boredom for no reason.<\/p>\n<p>Props to Steve Carell for an against-type performance.<\/p>\n<p>Hope Springs (2012) has great acting all around, but too safe of a story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope Springs-2012 Director David Frankel Starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones Scott\u2019s Review #434 Reviewed June 30, 2016 Grade: B Hope Springs (2012) is a cute, lighthearted romantic comedy-drama with enormous talent (it is tough to go wrong with heavyweights like Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones). The story tells of a middle-aged, married couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope Springs-2012<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,3542,192,1296,1866,5159,2243,45,222,2396,1730],"tags":[75,252,3543,193,1299,1873,5163,2183,95,221,2406,1738],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-comedies","category-david-frankel","category-dramas","category-elisabeth-shue","category-jean-smart","category-marin-ireland","category-meryl-streep","category-romcoms","category-romantic-dramas","category-steve-carell","category-tommy-lee-jones","tag-2012-movie-reviews","tag-comedies","tag-david-frankel","tag-dramas-2","tag-elisabeth-shue","tag-jean-smart","tag-marin-ireland","tag-meryl-streep","tag-romantic-comedies","tag-romantic-dramas","tag-steve-carell","tag-tommy-lee-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19955,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/19955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}