{"id":31100,"date":"2022-11-25T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31100"},"modified":"2022-11-25T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:40:20","slug":"small-engine-repair-2021-starring-jon-bernthal-shea-whigham-john-pollono-ciara-bravo-spencer-house-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31100","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Small Engine Repair&#8221; (2021) starring Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham, John Pollono, Ciara Bravo &#038; Spencer House \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z112522zview_smallenginerepair.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Small Engine Repair <\/strong><\/em>(2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>John Pollono<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Pollono<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham, Jordana Spiro, John Pollono, Ciara Bravo, Spencer House, Josh Helman, James Badge Dale<\/strong> and <strong>James Ransone<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:&nbsp; None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frank (J. Pollono), Terrence (Bernthal) and Packie (Whigham) have been best friends since high school.&nbsp; When Frank&#8217;s marriage broke up, he kept custody of his daughter, Crystal (Bravo).&nbsp; Thankfully, the guys stepped in to help raise her.&nbsp; When Frank had to do some time in prison because of his temper, the guys took custody of Crystal until Frank got out.&nbsp; Now Crystal is about to go to college and the guys can breathe a little easier&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Frank asks Terrence and Packie to meet him one night at his small engine repair shop, they have no idea what&#8217;s up.&nbsp; When they learn that it involves something that happened to Crystal, there is no line that they won&#8217;t cross to make things right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m surprised that more people aren&#8217;t talking about <em>Small Engine Repair<\/em>.&nbsp; It is one of the most under-rated movies I&#8217;ve seen this year.&nbsp; John Pollono adapted his play for the screen, directed and also stars.&nbsp; He&#8217;s joined by Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham (both are always great), Ciara Bravo and Spencer House (who more than hold their own).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Small Engine Repair<\/em> reminded me of <em>Slingblade<\/em> in that it&#8217;s a small budget film, focused on working class folks with a powerful story that was written and directed by the star of the film.&nbsp; <em>Small Engine Repair<\/em> takes time to set everything up and covers a lot of ground.&nbsp; Then we get to the last act and the tension mounts as we learn what Frank has planned.&nbsp; Once all cards are on the table there is no turning back&#8230; or is there?<\/p>\n<p>I loved <em>Small Engine Repair<\/em> and hope that more people get a chance to see it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Small Engine Repair <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.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\/z112522zview_smallenginerepair2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Engine Repair (2021) Director: John Pollono Screenplay: John Pollono Stars: Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham, Jordana Spiro, John Pollono, Ciara<\/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-31100","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\/31100","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=31100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31107,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31100\/revisions\/31107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}