{"id":7961,"date":"2025-02-07T07:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=7961"},"modified":"2025-02-07T07:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:41:05","slug":"hope-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/02\/hope-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2012, USA\/Canada, 100 min.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 31 years of marriage and two kids, Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) have their life in order. Arnold is satisfied; Kay, on the other hand, has been driven to quiet misery. Forget about sex\u2014any sign of intimacy has eroded. They\u2019re alone together. \u201cIs it too warm in your room?\u201d Arnold asks when she pays a hopeful visit to his bedroom, only to leave in quiet embarrassment. Desperate for change, Kay drags Arnold 1,500 miles to a famed marriage therapist (Steve Carell) for a week of counseling sessions. Jones and Streep play off each other expertly, and director David Frankel does not approach the material as a sex farce or he-said, she-said carping. The couple learns in real time through honest conversations and not-always-successful \u201csexercises\u201d how to write their final chapters. Alternately touching and insightful, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hope Springs <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is that rare treat: a sweet, tender movie about people we know.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 31 years of marriage and two kids, Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) have their life in order. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2025\/02\/hope-springs\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hope Springs<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,72,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-long-lasting-marriages","category-midlife"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}