{"id":7793,"date":"2009-08-01T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-08-01T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:43:26","slug":"from-shorts-to-features-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7793","title":{"rendered":"From Shorts to Features \u2013 Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hecker\u2019s period at the AFI yielded the short <strong>Family Attraction <\/strong>(1998), which reportedly became one of the AFI\u2019s most popular shorts \u2013 unsurprising that it would be the first of six films in Vanguard\u2019s DVD 2003 collection, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/c\/3473_CelebratingAFI.htm\">Celebrating AFI<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hecker eventually wrote and directed his first feature, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/b\/3471_BartGotARoom.htm\">Bart Got a Room <\/a><\/strong>(Anchor Bay\/Starz) ten years later, wherein he mined his uncomfortable teen years for a refreshing take on guy-getting-girl-for-prom plot.<\/p>\n<p>At under 80 mins., it\u2019s a short gem that hopefully won\u2019t disappear amid the banal star-studded comedies cranked out by the major studios every month. Hecker\u2019s sense of humour is sly, subtle, and never condescending towards his characters, and <strong>Bart Got a Room<\/strong> also showcases Hollywood, Florida as a colourful suburban seniors haven.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and William H. Macy sports the worst hairdo in filmdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; MRH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hecker\u2019s period at the AFI yielded the short Family Attraction (1998), which reportedly became one of the AFI\u2019s most popular shorts \u2013 unsurprising that it would be the first of six films in Vanguard\u2019s DVD 2003 collection, Celebrating AFI. Hecker eventually wrote and directed his first feature, Bart Got a Room (Anchor Bay\/Starz) ten years later, wherein he mined his uncomfortable teen years for a refreshing take on guy-getting-girl-for-prom plot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-21H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}