{"id":16449,"date":"2011-11-09T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T04:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=16449"},"modified":"2011-11-09T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T05:01:35","slug":"wuss-clay-lifford-2011-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=16449","title":{"rendered":"Wuss (Clay Lifford, 2011):  USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=1841\">Seth Lawyer<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at AFI Fest 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scene-stealers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Wuss-Poster-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"317\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/\/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wuss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1696197\/\">Wuss<\/a> was a film about a high school teacher who seems to get bullied by everyone from his students to his colleagues. \u00a0 He is a self-proclaimed writer with no works published who lives with his mom. \u00a0The movie starts out at his high school reunion where he meets an old crush who he tries to woo but falls short when he confesses he is a high school teacher at their old high school. \u00a0 The second act involves the wuss Mitch being severely beat up by three of his &#8220;thug&#8221; students and being threatened if he tells anyone. \u00a0He is scared so he lies to everyone about what happened but his best student Maddie Worth knows the truth and has an interesting tie to these bullies in which she is able to clear everything up. \u00a0Which ultimately leads to more disaster and a growing student-teacher romance. \u00a0Clay Lifford gave us a little speech prior to the films showing and you really can see his personality come out in the way he directs the film. \u00a0He is a very witty guy and seems to have comedy down. \u00a0I just hope he becomes mainstream soon because his films would be\u00a0definitely worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Seth Lawyer. \u00a0Viewed at AFI Fest 2011. Wuss was a film about a high school teacher who seems to get bullied by everyone from his students to his colleagues. \u00a0 He is a self-proclaimed writer with no works published who lives with his mom. \u00a0The movie starts out at his high school reunion [&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-16449","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\/16449","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=16449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}