{"id":149,"date":"2009-07-10T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-07-13T22:51:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:51:03","slug":"smells-like-screen-spirit-knuckle-draggers-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/2009\/07\/smells-like-screen-spirit-knuckle-draggers-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Screen Spirit &#8211; Knuckle Draggers Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em>Knuckle Draggers<\/em> follows the story of a down on his luck emerging director named Ethan (Ross McCall). Even though Ethan\u2019s a great guy, his fianc\u00e9e Heather (Jennifer Alden) leaves him because he is unable to provide her a swanky lifestyle similar to those of her friends. Set on winning Heather back, Ethan reaches out to his sexist older brother Kyle (Paul J. Alessi), a macho New Yorker who has his own unique philosophy on the dynamic of men and women. Disgusted by Kyle\u2019s<em> <\/em>chauvinist view on women, Ethan\u2019s female friends Patricia (Amie Barsky) and Renee (Danielle Nicolet) chime in to provide advice from the other side. As the story progresses Ethan is not the only one who is faced with questioning their relationships, and what it is they need from them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Though the stars of the film are not household names, there are many familiar faces \u2013 Ross McCall was in the HBO miniseries <em>Band of Brothers<\/em> and the Starz TV series <em>Crash<\/em>. Paul J. Alessi who is also the producer of the film was in <em>Ten til Noon<\/em> and the TV series <em>Desire<\/em>. Omar Gooding (Cuba Gooding Jr.\u2019s little brother) was in&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/smellslikescreenspirit.com\/2009\/07\/knuckle-draggers-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knuckle Draggers follows the story of a down on his luck emerging director named Ethan (Ross McCall). Even though Ethan\u2019s a great guy, his fianc\u00e9e Heather (Jennifer Alden) leaves him because he is unable to provide her a swanky lifestyle similar to those of her friends. Set on winning Heather back, Ethan reaches out to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/2009\/07\/smells-like-screen-spirit-knuckle-draggers-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smells Like Screen Spirit &#8211; Knuckle Draggers Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[28,170,172,169,32,174,34,12,55,58,37,45,31,168,171,173],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","tag-amie-barsky","tag-band-of-brothers","tag-crash","tag-cuba-gooding-jr","tag-danielle-nicolet","tag-desire","tag-jennifer-alden","tag-knuckle-draggers","tag-movie","tag-movie-review","tag-omar-gooding","tag-review","tag-ross-mccall","tag-smells-like-screen-spirit","tag-starz-tv","tag-ten-til-noon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}