{"id":639,"date":"2014-05-29T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:28:21","slug":"movie-groupings-group-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2014\/05\/movie-groupings-group-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie groupings. Group Three."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Harry and<\/em> <em>Tonto<\/em> (1974), <em>Larger than Life<\/em> (1996), and <em>Duck\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>(2009) are grouped together because all feature older men with animal companions. Themes of loneliness, masculinity, aging, and a sense of place pervade all three films.<\/p>\n<p>1. Art Carney (famous as Ed Norton on <em>The Honeymooners<\/em>) travels west with his orange tabby cat, Tonto, in <em>Harry and Tonto<\/em>. Harry is a retired New York teacher in his 70s in New York, where he&#8217;s lived his whole life. Harry drives across the United States with Tonto, visiting his children, and seeing a world he never had time to see before. Carney won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2. In <em>Larger than Life<\/em>, motivational speaker Bill Murray hits the road after getting a telegram from an attorney in Baltimore about the large estate of his recently deceased father. The &#8220;large&#8221; estate is Tiny the elephant.<\/p>\n<p>3. Philip Baker Hall stars as Arthur in <em>Duck<\/em>. Recently widowed, his savings wiped out by his wife&#8217;s illness, and their only son long dead, Arthur adopts and is adopted by a duckling he names Joe whom he cares for Joe and keeps clean Joe&#8217;s pond on land near his son&#8217;s memorial tree. When the pond is drained, Arthur and Joe head west on a picaresque journey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry and Tonto (1974), Larger than Life (1996), and Duck\u00c2\u00a0(2009) are grouped together because all feature older men with animal companions. Themes of loneliness, masculinity, aging, and a sense of place pervade all three films. 1. Art Carney (famous as Ed Norton on The Honeymooners) travels west with his orange tabby cat, Tonto, in Harry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}