Her is a 2013 American science-fiction romance film written, directed, and produced by Spike Jonze. It marks Jonze's solo screenwriting debut. The film follows Theodore Twombly, a man who develops a relationship with Samantha, an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice. The film also stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde. Jonze conceived the idea in the early 2000s after reading an article about a website that allowed for instant messaging with an a. His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 18 April 1994 by Island Records.It proved to be the band's breakthrough album, reaching number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | |
---|---|
Directed by | Peter Greenaway |
Produced by |
|
Written by | Peter Greenaway |
Starring | |
Music by | Michael Nyman |
Cinematography | Sacha Vierny |
Edited by | John Wilson |
Distributed by | Palace Pictures, Miramax |
Release date |
|
124 minutes[1] | |
Country |
|
Language | English |
Box office | $7.7 million (North America)[2] |
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 crime drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the titular roles. The film's graphic scatology, violence, and nude scenes, as well as its lavish cinematography and formalism, were noted at the time of its release.
English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high-class Le Hollandais Restaurant, run by French chef Richard Boarst. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers, whose patronage he loses, but whose money he seems not to miss.
Forced to accompany Spica is his reluctant, well-bred wife, Georgina, who soon catches the eye of a quiet regular at the restaurant, bookshop owner Michael. Under her husband's nose, Georgina carries on an affair with Michael with the help of the restaurant staff. Ultimately Spica learns of the affair, forcing Georgina to hide out at Michael's book depository. Boarst sends food to Georgina through his young employee Pup, a boy soprano who sings while working. Spica tortures the boy before finding the bookstore's location written in a book the boy is carrying. Spica's men storm Michael's bookshop while Georgina is visiting the boy in hospital. They torture Michael to death by force-feeding him pages from his books. Georgina discovers his body when she returns.
Overcome with rage and grief, she begs Boarst to cook Michael's body, and he eventually complies. Together with all the people that Spica wronged throughout the film, Georgina confronts her husband finally at the restaurant and forces him at gunpoint to eat a mouthful of Michael's cooked body. Spica obeys, gagging. Georgina then shoots him in the head, calling him a cannibal.
Peter Greenaway has said that the Jacobean play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore provided him with the main template for his screenplay.[3]
Michael Nyman's score prominently incorporated his 1985 composition Memorial.
Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes. Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli prepared the food used as props.
The film debuted at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival and was released on 13 October 1989 in London on two screens. It grossed over $500,000 in London.[4] During its opening week in Paris it grossed $158,500.[5]
Miramax acquired the rights for $500,000, and released the film in New York on 6 April 1990. It was Greenaway's first film to be released fully in the US since The Draughtsman's Contract in 1982.[6] It grossed $7.7 million in the US.[2]
The film's original running time was 124 minutes. Due to the content, the MPAA gave Miramax a choice of either an X rating or go unrated (adults only) for theatrical release. Unrated was chosen in light of the X rating being more associated with pornographic films. Two versions of the film were released on VHS in the 1990s. One was an R-rated cut running 95 minutes (mainly for large video store chains); the other was the original version.
The film received largely positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it currently holds an 87% score based on 39 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's consensus states: 'This romantic crime drama may not be to everyone's taste, but The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is an audacious, powerful film.'[7]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars,[8] noting that the film's raw emotion and violent interpersonal conflict was a departure from Greenaway's typically cerebral and intellectual films.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is the twelfth album release by Michael Nyman and the ninth to feature the Michael Nyman Band. The album includes the first commercially released recording of Nyman's composition 'Memorial'.
There is some music not included on the soundtrack album: the love theme for Michael and Georgina, which is 'Fish Beach' from Drowning by Numbers, the song performed as a show in the restaurant, sung by actress and singer Flavia Brilli, or a doubly pulsed variation of 'Memorial' that occurs about halfway through the film. Edits of 'Memorial' appear throughout the film, with the entire twelve-minute movement accompanying the final scene and end credits, but one variation is uniquely created for the film.
Wikiquote has quotations related to: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover |
The Fosters | |
---|---|
Genre | Family drama Teen drama |
Created by | |
Starring | |
Theme music composer | Kari Kimmel |
Opening theme | 'Where You Belong' |
Composer(s) | Alec Puro |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 104 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
|
Producer(s) |
|
Cinematography | |
Editor(s) |
|
Running time | 42 minutes |
Production company(s) |
|
Distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television |
Release | |
Original network | Freeform |
Picture format | 1080p (HDTV) |
Original release | June 3, 2013 – June 6, 2018 |
Chronology | |
Followed by | Good Trouble |
External links | |
Official website |
The Fosters is an American family drama television series created by Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg. It premiered in the United States of America on June 3, 2013 on the Freeform (previously named ABC Family) television network and concluded on June 6, 2018. It follows the lives of the members of the Foster family led by lesbian couple Stef and Lena, a cop and school vice principal respectively, who raise one biological and four adopted children in San Diego, California.
The first season of The Fosters received generally favorable reviews from critics and also garnered particular acclaim for its portrayal of LGBT themes. It also earned two GLAAD Media Awards and one Teen Choice Award.
On January 3, 2018, Freeform announced that The Fosters was ending after five seasons. The series concluded with a three-episode finale which aired from June 4 to 6, 2018. The finale also acted as an introduction to a spinoff-series starring Cierra Ramirez and Maia Mitchell, Good Trouble.[1]
The series follows the lives of police officer Stef Adams Foster and her wife Lena Adams Foster, a school vice principal, and their multi-ethnic, blended family. Stef and Lena are the parents of Brandon Foster, who is Stef's biological son, and the twins, Jesus and Mariana, who were adopted as small children. At the outset of the series, the couple take in two foster children, Callie and Jude, whom they later adopt. Also part of their lives is Mike Foster--Stef's patrol partner, ex-husband, and Brandon's father.
Most of the show takes place in their quiet San Diego suburb and at Anchor Beach Community Charter School, where Lena works and the Foster children go to school.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 21 | June 3, 2013 | March 24, 2014 | ||
2 | 21 | June 16, 2014 | March 23, 2015 | ||
3 | 20 | June 8, 2015 | March 28, 2016 | ||
4 | 20 | June 20, 2016 | April 11, 2017 | ||
5 | 22 | July 11, 2017 | June 6, 2018 |
The Fosters was originally conceived by openly gay creators Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige[11] who wanted to write a drama that reflected the 'modern American family'. After originally considering a story about two gay fathers, the pair decided the subject of two men raising a family had already been done on television and began to instead consider a story about two women.[12] When asked about the concept of two lesbian mothers raising a blended family, Bredeweg stated, 'We realized that there was a kind of a vacuum when it came to stories about women raising families. So we set off in that direction. Many of our own friends are moms raising biological kids. Some of them have fostered and adopted. Suddenly, we realized that we had a story here that hadn't been told on television before.'[12] Additionally, certain elements of the series which deal with the foster care system are said to have been inspired by a troubled childhood friend of Bredeweg, who struggled in the foster system before eventually being adopted in her senior year of high school.[12]
When developing the concept, Bredeweg and Paige were initially met with some resistance from Hollywood, with Bredeweg recounting, '[T]here were some people around us, some people in town who said, 'You know, it is just not going to happen. You are never going to sell this show.' After completing the first draft of the pilot script, the team was introduced to Jennifer Lopez through a friend who worked at her production company Nuyorican Productions, which was looking to branch out into scripted television. When describing their initial pitch to Lopez, Bredeweg stated, 'When we met with Jennifer, she really fell in love with it. The moment we had her, we knew that we had a force behind us.'[12]
Lopez's decision to become involved in the project is said to have been largely inspired by her late Aunt Marisa, Lopez's mother's gay elder sister who had faced discrimination during her lifetime due to her sexual orientation and was unable to have a family of her own.[13][14][15] When discussing the show's concept, Lopez stated, 'Although [the script] was about a non-traditional family and had some newer themes, it had some really basic themes as well about family and love and what's really important. And life can be complicated and messy sometimes and not simple. It gives a really good depiction of family in this day and age.'[15]
With Lopez on board, the team took the concept to several networks, including ABC Family, with Bredeweg recalling, 'ABC Family was really receptive from the very beginning. Strangely, it felt a little like a match made in heaven. I mean, their slogan is 'A new kind of family.' We had a new kind of modern family, and it took off from there.'[12] On July 6, 2012, The Hollywood Reporter, among other sources, reported that Jennifer Lopez and her production company, Nuyorican Productions, were developing the yet-to-be-titled hour-long drama for ABC Family, with Lopez set to executive produce alongside Simon Fields and Greg Gugliotta, as well as showrunners and head writers Peter Paige and Brad Bredeweg.[16][17]
Finally, the first televised promo appeared on ABC Family on April 19, 2013.[18]
On August 23, 2012, sources reported that ABC Family had ordered a pilot for The Fosters, a series which would tell the story of a lesbian couple raising a '21st-century' multi-ethnic mix of foster and biological children.[19][20][21] On September 24, 2012, it was reported that Teri Polo and Sherri Saum had been cast to star in the pilot as the two leads, Stef Adams Foster and Lena Adams Foster, respectively.[22]
On February 6, 2013, it was reported that ABC Family had picked up the show, with production set to begin that spring for a summer 2013 premiere. The rest of the principal cast was also announced at that time, including Danny Nucci as Stef's ex-husband Mike Foster, David Lambert as their biological son Brandon Foster, Jake T. Austin and Cierra Ramirez as Stef and Lena's twins Jesus and Mariana Foster, and Maia Mitchell and Hayden Byerly as their foster children Callie and Jude Jacob.
When recounting the casting process, Bredeweg explained, '[W]e spent tireless hours trying to find the right person for each role. Then they all began to line up—it was like dominos—the moment we found our Lena, the moment we found our Callie, the moment we found our Stef, it sort of all started to line up perfectly for us.'[12] On April 11, 2013, TV Guide unveiled the first official cast photo of The Fosters.[23]
In March 2015, it was announced that Jake T. Austin would be leaving the show. He tweeted: 'I'm honored to have been a part of such a groundbreaking series, but I personally want to let you know that my time on the show has come to an end. Thank you for letting me be a part of your family, it's been a pleasure.' It was announced three months later that Noah Centineo would replace Austin in the role of Jesus.[24]
The Fosters premiered on June 3, 2013 and ran for ten episodes. On July 30, 2013, the series was picked up for a full season[25] and an additional eleven episodes were produced,[26] with the first season returning on January 13, 2014 before concluding on March 24. On October 11, 2013, ABC Family renewed The Fosters for a second season[27][28][29] that premiered on June 16, 2014. The summer finale premiered on August 18, 2014. In July, ABC Family announced a Christmas special to premiere in December with the second half of season 2 to premiere in January 2015. The third season premiered on June 8, 2015.[30]
On January 13, 2015, ABC Family renewed the series for a third season which premiered on June 8,[30][31] with the second half set to premiere on January 18, 2016 on Freeform.[32] On November 24, 2015, the premiere date was pushed to a week later on January 25, 2016.[33] On November 30, 2015, ABC Family announced that The Fosters was renewed for a fourth season and began airing on June 20, 2016.[34]
While Canada broadcasts the series on ABC Spark, it airs on Fox8 in Australia where its second season premiered on February 3, 2015.[35] In Turkey, the series airs on Dizimax Drama.[36]
On January 10, 2017, The Fosters was renewed for a fifth season, which included the series' 100th episode.[37]
On January 3, 2018, Freeform announced that The Fosters was ending after five seasons. The show's two-hour 100th episode acted as a Season 5 finale, setting up the three-part limited series event that aired in June 2018. The three-episode finale will introduce a spinoff series centered around Maia Mitchell’s Callie and Cierra Ramirez’s Mariana.[38]
On January 27, 2014, it was confirmed that ABC Family green-lighted a spin-off digital series of The Fosters, named The Fosters: Girls United. The five-part web series follows the residents of the Girls United home in a new country. Maia Mitchell, Daffany Clark, Cherinda Kincherlow, Annamarie Kenoyer, Alicia Sixtos, Hayley Kiyoko, and Angela Gibbs star in the series.[39]
The Fosters received a Metacritic score of 70 out of 100 in its first season, based on reviews by eleven critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.[40] While acknowledging its network was somewhat beholden to the 'soapy' format its target demographic had become accustomed to, critics praised the series for its ability to appeal to adults and younger viewers alike, with Boston Herald critic Mark A. Perigard writing, 'The show cannily plays to teen hopes and dreams [...] but there's story for the adults as well.'[41]St. Louis Post-Dispatch critic Gail Pennington echoed the sentiment, writing 'Intelligent enough for adults, accessible enough for younger viewers and entertaining enough for both.'[42]
The series has garnered positive reception for its innovative portrayal of LGBT characters and themes. Entertainment Weekly critic, Sarah Caldwell wrote that '[s]eeing a lesbian, biracial couple on a family TV show is a big deal. [I]f you look at the demographics of most TV shows, it's easy to realize how important, and deliberate, this choice was.'[43]Philadelphia Daily News critic Ellen Gray wrote, 'Stef and Lena [are] the kind of parents I've met more in real life than on television. I hope they'll be as welcome there as they seem to be welcoming.'[44]TV Guide critic Matt Rousch felt similarly, writing, 'there's something refreshing about its unforced approach to redefining what a family looks like.'[45] In addition to its adult characters, the series garnered praise for its handling of 13-year-old Jude's questioning of his sexual orientation, with Hollywood.com citing Byerly's 'heartwarming' portrayal when naming Jude to its list of 'Favorite LGBTQ Characters on TV' in 2014.[8] The LGBT advocacy organization GLAAD and gay-interest media outlet TheBacklot.com also commended the show's decision to introduce the character of transgender teenager Cole, portrayed by transgender actor Tom Phelan, in the second half of its first season.[11][46]
In his review of the pilot episode, Variety's Brian Lowry criticized what he felt were formulaic elements, writing that what was distinctive about the series appeared to have been 'extracted during the pitch meeting, indicating a show either built by committee or incorporating too many notes.' Although acknowledging that Polo and Saum were competent actresses and that the show 'had its heart in the right place', Lowry described the series as an 'utterly by-the-numbers affair.'[47]PopMatters critic Maysa Hattab detected some of the same problems, writing '[T]he Fosters feel less like a family than a careful assembly of machine-tooled parts, as if the show were engineered for a focus group approved 'family drama' category', while conceding that the lead characters, Stef and Lena were 'a likeable pair.'[48]
On October 8, 2012, more than seven months prior to the series debut, the socially conservative One Million Moms organization, a division of the American Family Association, condemned Lopez and the show, encouraging audiences to boycott it.[49][50] The group, which has routinely advocated against the depiction of same-sex couples in the media, stated: 'While foster care and adoption is a wonderful thing and the Bible does teach us to help orphans, this program is attempting to redefine marriage and family by having two moms raise these children together.'[51][52] They issued the following statement:
In response, ABC defended the television show, with ABC Family President Michael Riley countering that The Fosters merges perfectly with the network's 'groundbreaking storytelling and iconic characters' and will feature 'the same depth, heart, close relationships and authenticity that our viewers have come to expect'.[55] Other sources have also defended the show. Josh Middleton, a writer from Philadelphia magazine, called One Million Moms' statement 'silliness' as well as 'ridiculous' and said, 'They obviously missed the boat on shows like Modern Family and The New Normal, which have been on air—and killing it in the ratings game—for a while now'.[18]
Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of The Fosters.
Season | Episodes | Time slot (EST) | Premiered | Ended | TV season | Overall viewership | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date | Premiere viewers (in millions) | Date | Finale viewers (in millions) | |||||
1 | 21 | Mondays 9:00 pm | June 3, 2013 | 1.42[56] | March 24, 2014 | 1.29[57] | 2013–14 | 1.68[58] |
2 | 21 | Mondays 9:00 p.m. (2014) Mondays 8:00 p.m. (2015) | June 16, 2014 | 1.47[59] | March 23, 2015 | 1.45[60] | 2014–15 | 1.39[61] |
3 | 20 | Mondays 8:00 pm | June 8, 2015 | 1.26[62] | March 28, 2016 | 0.77[63] | 2015–16 | 1.00[64] |
4 | 20 | Mondays 8:00 pm (2016) Tuesdays 8:00pm (2017) | June 20, 2016 | 0.91[65] | April 11, 2017 | 0.72[66] | 2016–17 | TBA |
5 | 22 | Tuesdays 8:00pm | July 11, 2017 | 0.87[67] | June 6, 2018 | 0.63[68] | 2017–18 | TBA |
Year | Association | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV Breakout Show | The Fosters | Won | [69] |
Choice Summer TV Show | The Fosters | Nominated | [70] | ||
Choice Summer TV Star: Male | Jake T. Austin | Nominated | |||
Choice Summer TV Star: Female | Maia Mitchell | Nominated | |||
2014 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series | Millicent Shelton (Episode: 'Clean') | Nominated | [71] |
GLAAD Media Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | The Fosters | Won | [72] | |
GLAAD Vanguard Award | Jennifer Lopez (Executive producer) | Won | [13] | ||
TCA Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming | The Fosters | Nominated | ||
Teen Choice Awards | Drama Show | The Fosters | Nominated | [73] | |
Drama: Actor | Jake T. Austin | Nominated | |||
Drama: Actress | Maia Mitchell | Nominated | |||
Choice summer TV Star: Male | David Lambert | Nominated | |||
Choice summer TV Star: Female | Cierra Ramirez | Nominated | |||
2015 | GLAAD Media Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | The Fosters | Nominated | [74] |
TCA Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming | The Fosters | Won | [75] | |
Teen Choice Awards | Drama Show | The Fosters | Nominated | ||
Drama: Actress | Maia Mitchell | Nominated | |||
Drama: Actor | Jake T. Austin | Nominated | |||
Choice summer TV Star: Male | David Lambert | Nominated | |||
2016 | People's Choice Awards | Favorite Cable TV Drama | The Fosters | Nominated | |
GLAAD Media Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | The Fosters | Nominated | [76] | |
Teen Choice Awards | Choice TV Actress: Drama | Maia Mitchell | Nominated | [77] | |
Choice Summer TV Show | The Fosters | Nominated | [78] | ||
Choice Summer TV Star: Male | David Lambert | Nominated | [78] | ||
Choice Summer TV Star: Female | Cierra Ramirez | Nominated | [78] | ||
2018 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Drama TV Show | The Fosters | Nominated | [79] |
Choice Drama TV Actress | Maia Mitchell | Nominated |
On January 3, 2018, following the announcement of the ending of the series, Freeform announced a spin-off was in the works. It would center the lives of Callie Adams Foster and Mariana Adams Foster, now living in Los Angeles, a few years after the series finale of The Fosters, which contains a five-year time jump. The spinoff was given a 13-episode order.[80] On May 23, 2018, it was announced that the title of the spin-off series is Good Trouble.[81] On February 5th of 2019 it was released via Good Trouble's Twitter that the show has been renewed for a season 2. [82]