{"id":17767,"date":"2021-06-03T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwaslikemagic.com\/?p=17767"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:15:48","slug":"thursday-movie-picks-falsely-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/thursday-movie-picks-falsely-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderingthroughtheshelves.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Wandering through the Shelves<\/a>\u00a0hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday&#8217;s theme and explain why you chose those movies.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s theme is Falsely Accused,\u00a0so here are my choices!<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/60.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Gone Girl (2014)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After his wife Amy goes missing on their anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance. Nick is a terrible person, but did he really murder his wife? This movie is bonkers and amazing and I have to be in just the right kind of mood to watch it. But I think it&#8217;s brilliant, and I still think Rosamund Pike should have won the Oscar.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/61.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>The Shawshank Redemption (1994)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Andy Dufresne gets sentenced to two life terms for the murder of his wife and her lover&#8230; but he maintains his innocence, even as he is sent to a pretty rough prison. <em>The Shawshank Redemption<\/em> is one of the best adaptations of Stephen King&#8217;s work, and looking back now, I wish it had won the Oscar for Best Picture. The third act is thrilling, and it stays with you for a long time after the credits have rolled.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Legally Blonde (2001)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After getting into Harvard Law to win back her boyfriend, Elle (Reese Witherspoon) finds herself on the legal team defending Brooke Windham, a woman accused of killing her husband. I really do adore this movie and the way Elle defies all expectations of her. The entire movie is fun, but I especially love watching Elle figure out the true murderer while they&#8217;re on the witness stand.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Movie Picks: Falsely Accused: Wandering through the Shelves hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday&#8217;s theme and explain why you chose those movies. Today&#8217;s theme is Falsely Accused,\u00a0so here are my choices!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2615,2377],"tags":[2572,2590,2591,2505],"class_list":["post-17767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-lists","tag-gone-girl","tag-legally-blonde","tag-the-shawshank-redemption","tag-thursday-movie-picks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85642,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767\/revisions\/85642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}