{"id":14765,"date":"2011-03-14T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T06:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=14765"},"modified":"2011-03-14T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:01:11","slug":"middleman-chris-capelluto-2011-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=14765","title":{"rendered":"Middleman (Chris Capelluto, 2011):  USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a title=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=49\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed <a title=\"middleman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1H4uYj_zeGo&amp;feature=relmfu\" target=\"_blank\">online at YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Middleman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14780\" title=\"Middleman\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Middleman-325x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Middleman-325x180.jpg 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Middleman.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>Jeremy Coulter (John Mingione) is a fast talking, used car salesman with an economics degree from NYU.\u00a0 He is\u00a0\u00a0struggling to pay off his $150k student loan when approached by Harley (Edward Ryan), an insidious minister of evil, who asks him\u00a0&#8220;have you ever sold anything bigger than a car?&#8221;\u00a0 He then offers Jeremy a job, apprising him that &#8220;salesmen are the middlemen between what you want, and what the world has to offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When suddenly a suspicious\u00a0mob of disgruntled customers\u00a0encircle Jeremy and attempt to jump him,\u00a0 out of nowhere, he pulls a few black-belt punches and escapes unscathed to the apartment of a female acquaintance named Natasha (Cyce Sadsad).<\/p>\n<p>With the loan weighing heavy on his mind, and at Natasha&#8217;s urging Jeremy accepts Harley&#8217;s offer, which is to use his business acumen\u00a0to sell a $15 billion loan to a third world country, and in turn absolve his student loan.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after they arrive at a\u00a0small country near the Baltic Sea, and Jeremy successfully sells the loan to the Prime Minister, but not before he has an act of consciousness in his deal with the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Middleman is a 17 minute adrenaline rush of action, humor, and \u00a0intrigue with a socio-political message.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about prostituting yourself for more and getting less on all levels.<\/p>\n<p>Good camera work with unsettling viewpoints, shaky cam, and distorted close ups on the vile and sinister Harley.\u00a0 Impressive work by Capelluto who shot the film in 4 days on a $600 budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed online at YouTube. Jeremy Coulter (John Mingione) is a fast talking, used car salesman with an economics degree from NYU.\u00a0 He is\u00a0\u00a0struggling to pay off his $150k student loan when approached by Harley (Edward Ryan), an insidious minister of evil, who asks him\u00a0&#8220;have you ever sold anything bigger than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,73,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-online-films","category-short-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}