{"id":5571,"date":"2024-03-13T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:09:24","slug":"american-dreamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/american-dreamer\/","title":{"rendered":"American Dreamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American Dreamer | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ip1M_fjL2Bo?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>American Dreamer<\/em>, based on a true story from Chicago Public Radio&#8217;s <em>This American Life<\/em>, is the story of Phil Loder (<strong>Peter Dinklage<\/strong>), a twice-divorced, frustrated, underpaid professor of economics, whose grand dream of home ownership is tragically out of reach. <\/p>\n<p>When an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes his way, Phil strikes a deal with Astrid Finnelli (<strong>Shirley MacLaine<\/strong>), a lonely, childless, near-death widow who offers her sprawling estate for pennies. <\/p>\n<p>But Phil quickly learns the deal is too good to be true and the American dream is not quite what it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Dinklage is a perfect thespian match for the legendary Shirley MacLaine when it comes to curmudgeon-laced dialogue, while simultaneously giving these characters so much heart and grit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by Paul Dektor from a disarmingly offbeat screenplay by Theodore Melfi, <strong>American Dreamer<\/strong> is fresh, original, unpredictable, and unexpectedly funny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>Comedy<br \/>\nUnited States (English)<br \/>\n1h 38min<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/americandreamer2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5572\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Dreamer, based on a true story from Chicago Public Radio&#8217;s This American Life, is the story of Phil Loder (Peter Dinklage), a twice-divorced, frustrated, underpaid professor of economics, whose grand dream of home ownership is tragically out of reach. When an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes his way, Phil strikes a deal with Astrid Finnelli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/americandreamer2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theflicks.ramonstoppelenburg.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}