{"id":29481,"date":"2022-04-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29481"},"modified":"2022-04-27T08:54:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:54:27","slug":"uncut-gems-2019-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29481","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Uncut Gems&#8221; (2019) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z042722zview_uncutgems.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Mrr4E3\">Uncut Gems<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>(2019)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writers:\u00a0 <strong>Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Adam Sandler, Julie Fox, Idina Menzel, Keith William Richards, Tommy Kominik, LaKeith Stanfield \u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Kevin Garnett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Howard Ratner (Sandler) is a big time gems dealer who should be on top of the world.\u00a0 He has a successful business and a beautiful wife and kids. He brings in enough money to support a lifestyle most can only dream of.\u00a0 Ratner&#8217;s self-destructive behavior has his business on the verge of collapse, his marriage near divorce.\u00a0 He understands what is happening and yet continues to make the worst possible choices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ratner&#8217;s a degenerate gambler in debt to bookies and he keeps gambling &#8212; hocking items from his store to get enough for the next <em>sure thing<\/em>.\u00a0 He&#8217;s having an affair, paying for an expensive apartment for a woman he knows loves his lifestyle and not him.\u00a0 And when Ratner is lucky enough to get a chance to get out from under it all he screws that up&#8230; repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adam Sandler is excellent as Howard Ratner, one of the most unlikeable screw-ups in movie history. The problem I had with the film is that Ratner is so despicable, there&#8217;s no one to pull for.\u00a0 He moves from one screw-up that he caused to the next.\u00a0 That became tiresome as did the screaming and threats.\u00a0 So for me <em>Uncut Gems<\/em> gets 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z042722zview_uncutgems2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncut Gems\u00a0 (2019) Director:\u00a0 Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie Writers:\u00a0 Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie Starring:\u00a0 Adam Sandler, Julie Fox,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29533,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions\/29533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}