{"id":13273,"date":"2019-11-17T21:15:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2019-11-17T21:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T02:15:26","slug":"wild-rose-2018-tom-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13273","title":{"rendered":"Wild Rose (2018, Tom Harper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A loser mom in Scotland dreams of being a country singer &#8211; it&#8217;s not the worst premise, but then her extremely well-meaning employer Sophie Okonedo wants to help this dream come true, as fiery Jessie Buckley undermines her own success at every opportunity, and the movie becomes an overly-smiley, Disney version of a John Carney plot (so, it becomes <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9889\">Begin Again<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Jessie is a loser because she gives up on everything, including her own family, as long-suffering mom Julie Walters reminds her, but when Jessie finally goes to Nashville assuming she&#8217;s be dramatically discovered by talent scouts within a couple days, sees the sad reality of the open-mic scene there, and gives up on this dream to return home, it&#8217;s a triumph.  Anyway, the climactic Mary Steenburgen song is sure to get nominated, and Jessie (<em>Chernobyl<\/em>, Michael Pearce&#8217;s <em>Beast<\/em>) is already winning things.  Director Tom Harper has already followed up with <em>The Aeronauts<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/the-aeronauts\/\">LWL<\/a>: &#8220;the longest 100 minutes you&#8217;ll spend in a cinema this year&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loser mom in Scotland dreams of being a country singer &#8211; it&#8217;s not the worst premise, but then her extremely well-meaning employer Sophie Okonedo wants to help this dream come true, as fiery Jessie Buckley undermines her own success at every opportunity, and the movie becomes an overly-smiley, Disney version of a John Carney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2440,309,796,2581],"class_list":["post-13273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-country-music","tag-nashville","tag-scotland","tag-tom-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13280,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}