{"id":10373,"date":"2019-12-05T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10373"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:13:41","slug":"a-million-little-pieces-an-effective-blunt-instrument-of-a-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/05\/a-million-little-pieces-an-effective-blunt-instrument-of-a-film\/","title":{"rendered":"A MILLION LITTLE PIECES “An effective blunt instrument of a film”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018A Million Little Pieces\u2019 works on film, and that\u2019s the honest truth<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Taylor-Johnson does harrowing work as author James Frey in the throes of addiction and rehab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Richard Roeper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays James Frey at his addictive low point in \u201cA Million Little Pieces.\u201d
\u00a0Momentum Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain, quoted in \u201cA Million Little Pieces.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You had to feel for James Frey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2006, the School of the Art Institute grad turned best-selling author took arguably the most brutal verbal beatdown in the history of \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Granted, Frey brought it upon himself, when it was revealed his mega-successful addiction memoir \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d contained major exaggerations and fabrications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oprah, who initially had championed the book, was not amused. She called Frey on the carpet in front of a studio audience and millions of viewers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seemed excessive. It was painful to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years later, Oprah said she owed Frey an apology. By then, Frey had bounced back in a big way, with a seven-figure deal to write novels for Harper Collins. Since then, his career has continued to thrive, most recently with a \u201cStory By\u201d credit for the acclaimed theatrical release\u00a0\u201cQueen & Slim.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, some 16 years after the publication of \u201cA Million Little Pieces,\u201d a film adaptation from director\/co-writer Sam Taylor-Johnson (\u201cFifty Shades of Grey,\u201d no relation) is getting an understated release, and it\u2019s reasonable to assume a good percentage of viewers will have little or no knowledge of the controversial story behind the source material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that it should matter. As a stand-alone work of cinema fiction, \u201cA Million Little Pieces\u201d is an effective blunt instrument of a film \u2014 a rough-edged, unvarnished, painfully accurate portrayal of addiction and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at The Sun-Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Chicago Sun-Times \u2018A Million Little Pieces\u2019 works on film, and that\u2019s the honest truth Aaron Taylor-Johnson does harrowing work as author James Frey in the throes of addiction and rehab. By\u00a0Richard Roeper \u201cI\u2019ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain, quoted in \u201cA Million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}