Screenplay:
David SeltzerCinematography:
Affonso BeatoComposer:
Rolfe KentCast:
Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, Thomas Dekker, James Gandolfini, Patrick Fugit, Kathleen Quinlan, Matt O'Leary, Lolita Davidovich, Shanna Collins, Emilio Rivera (more)VOD (3)
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In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. Cinema Verite tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.
"An American Family" was a total departure from the television shows of the time when it aired in 1973, and brought public scrutiny to a family unprepared for the consequences. It put the Louds in the spotlight as the parents (Diane Lane, Tim Robbins) struggled with their marriage while raising their children. In particular, Pat was criticized for her support of her openly gay son Lance (Thomas Dekker) at a time when homosexuality was rarely represented on television. (official distributor synopsis)
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One of the important milestones of reality shows in the USA. One family decided to film their everyday life and show it to the whole America. Subsequently, the whole family started falling apart in front of the cameras. Obviously. Just let someone say a little about themselves and it will start spreading as gossip among everyone. And that's just about one event. What then, when people see the whole family's entire day. Criticism, gossip, swearing. That's what we, people, do best and that's exactly why people enjoy watching reality shows so much. And it's quite interesting to see where it all actually began.
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