{"id":16435,"date":"2011-11-09T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=16435"},"modified":"2011-11-09T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T04:58:58","slug":"butter-jim-field-smith-2011-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=16435","title":{"rendered":"Butter (Jim Field Smith, 2011): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a title=\"Posts by Seth Lawyer\" href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=1841\">Seth Lawyer<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at AFI Fest 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1129.photobucket.com\/albums\/m517\/vff2011\/ButterWEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/ width=\"325\" height=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Butter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1349451\/\">Butter<\/a> is a film about butter sculptures. \u00a0Boring right? \u00a0Well that&#8217;s what I was thinking but it has a good cast so I gave it a shot. \u00a0Best decision I made because this was by far my favorite film at \u00a0the festival. \u00a0Jim Field Smith is an absolute comedy genius. \u00a0The film revolves around two families. \u00a0Jennifer Garner is the wife of a fifteen year butter sculpture champion who has just been asked to step down and give others a shot at glory. \u00a0Jennifer Garner finds this absurd and decides to enter herself, thinking she could easily do it after fifteen years of watching her husband. \u00a0The second family consists of Rob Corddry and Alicia Silverstone who have recently adopted a 10-year old little girl who has just found her passion&#8230;butter sculpting. \u00a0Her new adoptive parents feel an obligation to support her and help her enter the contest. \u00a0After the little girl, Destiny, wins she is accused of being a cheater and having someone sculpt for her. \u00a0The accuser just so happens to be Jennifer Garner&#8217;s male mistress, Hugh Jackman. \u00a0This leads to an inevitable rematch where the two face-off head to head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Seth Lawyer. \u00a0Viewed at AFI Fest 2011. Butter is a film about butter sculptures. \u00a0Boring right? \u00a0Well that&#8217;s what I was thinking but it has a good cast so I gave it a shot. \u00a0Best decision I made because this was by far my favorite film at \u00a0the festival. \u00a0Jim Field Smith is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2011","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435","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\/1841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}