{"id":1263,"date":"2017-09-06T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/robot-frank\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:12:47","slug":"robot-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/robot-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot &#038; Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2012, USA, 89 min.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Frank Langella\u2019s storied career, this might be one of his best performances. He plays an ex-jewel thief who initially refuses his adult son\u2019s gift of a robot assistant (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard)\u2014until he discovers the robot can get him back into the felonious life he so desperately misses. This touching, finely crafted drama set in the near future boasts constant delights, including this one: in a time when electronics are eliminating the human element in everyday living, the robot engages with Frank more than anyone else in his life. Getting older is a lot easier when someone is valued. People should serve that role. <em>Robot &amp; Frank<\/em> offers this reminder in a way that is entertaining as well as honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012, USA, 89 min. In Frank Langella\u2019s storied career, this might be one of his best performances. He plays an ex-jewel thief who initially refuses his adult son\u2019s gift of a robot assistant (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard)\u2014until he discovers the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/robot-frank\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robot &#038; Frank<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caregiving","category-comedy-drama"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}