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Serial
by Legend Films
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LEGEND FILMS
Publisher: Legend Films
Rexford Metz
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Actors: Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee, Tom Smothers, Sally Kellerman
Harvey Holroyd (Martin Mull) is a Marin County resident who is surrounded by strangeness. His family, neighbors and co-workers all seem consumed by the fads and trends of 1980, and it's getting to be too much to take. Sex, drugs, psychobabble and health food - it's enough to drive anyone insane! Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee and Tommy Smothers help make up a wacky all-star cast. Serial is
Harvey Holroyd (Martin Mull) is a Marin County resident who is surrounded by strangeness. His family, neighbors and co-workers all seem consumed by the fads and trends of 1980, and it's getting to be too much to take. Sex, drugs, psychobabble and health food - it's enough to drive anyone insane! Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee and Tommy Smothers help make up a wacky all-star cast. Serial is a biting and hilarious satire of 1980 California life that seems eerily prophetic three decades later.
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Of course a comedy mocking Marin County in the 1970s is bound to aggravate the progressives, but that's EXACTLY what it set out to do. It was, after all, based on McFadden's sarcastic and mocking book of (about) the same name. But beyond the loony charicatures (and they abound), the writing snaps and the dialogue is pitch-perfect. I'll just give one short example: When Harvy Oldroyd (Martin Mull) goes bonkers at the goofball Indian drum ceremony wake of his best friend (William Macy) and has to be sedated by the neighborhood shrink, he groggily awakens a day or so later in bed. A friend's kid, "Stokely," comes by to visit Mull in his bedroom and they have a short chat, to wit:
Harvey: "So . . . what are people saying?"
Stokely makes a circling motion by his head, indicating insanity.
Harvey (nodding): "Oh well."
Stokely (quoting): "In an insane world, the sane man must appear insane."
Harvey (surprised at the kid's erudition): "Where'd you hear that?"
Stokely: "Star Trek."
Harvey (after a beat): "God, I miss that show."
Look for prime performances from Christopher Lee as a gay weekend Hell's Angel, Tommy Smothers as the doofus "Reverend Spike," and the enchanting Tuesday Weld as Harvey's flummoxed wife. Not for all tastes, just those of us who remember the 70s and longed for someone to mock them as they deserved. "Serial" is just the ticket.
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| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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great movie ! a lot of people never saw this movie ? i don't know why ? i think its great ! its about relationships gone wrong !
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| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I think this is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It is not slap-stick, but a good satire of the 80's life style of California.
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| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is a sexy, funny movie that I used to watch almost nightly on HBO as a kid. Now, 25 years later, this movie is a period piece about California in the mid 70's, and everything that was so silly about that time and place.
It's Martin Mull at his peak, and be warned, even his most lighthearted comedy can be very dark and cynical. This is no exception.
I can't say enough good things about this movie and it's all star cast.
Sit back and watch an everyday kind of guy try not get swept away in a time of sexual revolution and new found social awareness. Join Harvey on his encounters with desperate housewives, gay outlaw bikers, pill popping shrinks, free love hippies, religious cults, and teenagers who know everything!
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| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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This small, compact little movie is a reminder to me of those times, having lived and visited the areas in question quite often. I like it, but it probably wouldn't register with youngsters (anyone born after 1975...huh? there were people born after 1947????)
But I like it a lot. The main theme music is a little boring.
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