{"id":9194,"date":"2014-07-05T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2014-06-29T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:43:12","slug":"chef-2014-jon-favreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9194","title":{"rendered":"Chef (2014, Jon Favreau)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simple, straightforward, obvious movie full of affable people, a pleasant diversion with some delicious-looking food but probably not even as great\/interesting as something like <em>Waitress<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Favreau&#8217;s smallest film in over a decade, but probably didn&#8217;t feel small since he was writer\/director\/producer\/star\/cook.  Although it might&#8217;ve been ghostwritten by Twitter.  His movie star friends come along &#8211; <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7705\">Avengers<\/a> Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. play his restaurant hostess and ex-wife&#8217;s ex-husband.  Sofia Vergara (vengeful brothel mistress of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8886\">Machete Kills<\/a><\/em>) is the still-friendly ex-wife, Dustin Hoffman the chef&#8217;s boss, Oliver Platt the restaurant critic who sends Favreau on a road-trip journey of self-discovery, starting from scratch and remembering what he loved about cooking (alongside longtime assistant John Leguizamo) and reconnecting with his favorite regional dishes and his 10-year-old son and ex-wife and finally making up with the critic (but not with Dustin Hoffman) and opening his own place and getting remarried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple, straightforward, obvious movie full of affable people, a pleasant diversion with some delicious-looking food but probably not even as great\/interesting as something like Waitress. Favreau&#8217;s smallest film in over a decade, but probably didn&#8217;t feel small since he was writer\/director\/producer\/star\/cook. Although it might&#8217;ve been ghostwritten by Twitter. His movie star friends come along &#8211; [&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":[1049,1365,1804,950,1293,1058,375,1294,1805],"class_list":["post-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-cooking","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-john-leguizamo","tag-jon-favreau","tag-road-trip","tag-robert-downey-jr","tag-scarlett-johannson","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","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=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}