{"id":10834,"date":"2018-12-26T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=10834"},"modified":"2019-01-12T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:35:54","slug":"britt-hayes-says-dont-forget-tully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/britt-hayes-says-dont-forget-tully\/","title":{"rendered":"Britt Hayes Says Don&#8217;t Forget: <i>Tully<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jason Reitman is never as good as when he\u2019s collaborating with screenwriter Diablo Cody; bonus points if the film in question stars Charlize Theron, as <strong><i>Tully <\/i><\/strong>does. This unexpectedly searing film alternates between tender drama and psychological terror, plumbing the depths of an exhausted woman\u2019s (Theron) psyche to explore exactly what it means to be a mother and all the sacrifices and trade-offs that entails. Theron is exceptional opposite a magnetic Mackenzie Davis, who plays the eponymous nanny, hired to help ease the stress of Theron\u2019s life. Ron Livingston delivers an underrated performance as Theron\u2019s absent-minded but good-natured husband, who \u2013 like so many men \u2013\u00a0is unaware of the extent of his wife\u2019s emotional struggles. Not to sound reductive, but Cody has written what could be described as a psychological horror remake of <i>Mary Poppins<\/i>: an astonishingly poignant exploration of motherhood and the covenants one makes with herself to stay afloat. <i>Tully<\/i> isn\u2019t as flashy as this season\u2019s clear Oscar contenders, but that\u2019s sort of what makes it special. It\u2019s bracingly honest and refreshingly simple in its ambitions. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Reitman is never as good as when he\u2019s collaborating with screenwriter Diablo Cody; bonus points if the film in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":10835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-looking-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}