{"id":6875,"date":"2010-02-23T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:18:48","slug":"the-hungry-ghosts-michael-impertoli-2009-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6875","title":{"rendered":"The Hungry Ghosts (Michael Impertoli, 2009): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=813\">Ben Williams<\/a> at the 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6874\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Schirripa-CohenWEB-705457-325x236.jpg\" alt=\"Schirripa-CohenWEB-705457\" width=\"325\" height=\"236\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Schirripa-CohenWEB-705457-325x236.jpg 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Schirripa-CohenWEB-705457.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>The Emmy award winner Michael Impertoli (The Sopranos) takes the stage in directing his new film the <em>Hungry Ghosts<\/em>. \u00a0This film is a new side project for him aside from his acting career. \u00a0This is a guy who just a little bit about everything. \u00a0With his own script and a director to boot. \u00a0Impertoli, through camera actions and annoying characters, reveals that The Hungry Ghosts is a drama that doesn&#8217;t really tick.<\/p>\n<p>Frank is a loud mouthed, drug addicted, failure of a father to his son Matthew. \u00a0Who when he gets a chance to see him he either is late or doesn&#8217;t show up at all.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia is a girl helping the elderly pass on and die. \u00a0While Gus on the other hand is just a man seeking the true answer beyond everything that he has been taught.<\/p>\n<p>The audience is bounced back and forth in this film from one characters actions to another. \u00a0And from there it is up to the audience to figure out what the story is. \u00a0Other than that there really is no story and very little of a plot in this film. \u00a0Despite the \u00a0 good acting everything else needs work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Ben Williams at the 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The Emmy award winner Michael Impertoli (The Sopranos) takes the stage in directing his new film the Hungry Ghosts. \u00a0This film is a new side project for him aside from his acting career. \u00a0This is a guy who just a little bit about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","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\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}