{"id":89,"date":"2009-06-18T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/?p=89"},"modified":"2009-07-09T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T20:15:29","slug":"producer-paul-j-alessi-talks-about-knuckle-draggers-part-of-t-o-%e2%80%99s-reelheart-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/2009\/06\/producer-paul-j-alessi-talks-about-knuckle-draggers-part-of-t-o-%e2%80%99s-reelheart-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Paul J. Alessi talks about Knuckle Draggers, part of T.O.\u2019s ReelHeART Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knuckle Draggers is a humorous but very real look at the state of modern male-female relationships. Written and directed by Alex Ranarivelo, produced by Paul J. Alessi, and co-produced by Amie Barsky and Baptiste DeRivel, the film is a relationship movie from a male perspective. The story follows Ethan, an all around nice guy who gets dumped because he wasn\u2019t able to provide his fianc\u00e9e with the plush, stable life her friends were living. Desperate to get her back, he seeks help from his older brother Kyle, a tough talking sexist who seems to have a way with the ladies. Kyle gives Ethan a crash course on women and dating much to the disgust of some of Ethan\u2019s female friends. Just when it seems Kyle\u2019s misogynistic theories are about to prove themselves true, things take an unexpected turn and\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corrieretandem.com\/viewstory.php?storyid=9228\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knuckle Draggers is a humorous but very real look at the state of modern male-female relationships. Written and directed by Alex Ranarivelo, produced by Paul J. Alessi, and co-produced by Amie Barsky and Baptiste DeRivel, the film is a relationship movie from a male perspective. The story follows Ethan, an all around nice guy who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/2009\/06\/producer-paul-j-alessi-talks-about-knuckle-draggers-part-of-t-o-%e2%80%99s-reelheart-film-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Producer Paul J. Alessi talks about Knuckle Draggers, part of T.O.\u2019s ReelHeART Film Festival&#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":[5,4],"tags":[17,28,29,20,12,16,346,125],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-news","tag-alex-ranarivelo","tag-amie-barsky","tag-baptiste-derivel","tag-interview","tag-knuckle-draggers","tag-paul-j-alessi","tag-producer","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljalessi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}