Cinema Verite (2011)

Directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini · Drama

Starring Tim Robbins, Diane Lane, James Gandolfini, Kathleen Quinlan, Karynn Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Johnny Simmons, Patrick Fugit, Thomas Dekker, Caitlin Custer, Molly Hagan, Matt O'Leary, Willam Belli, Nick Eversman, Patrick Salway

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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.

My review · Reviewed 02/03/2022

While I generally enjoyed the film I kept having this feeling that there was a better movie in there. From what little I have read about the actual events, the true story seemed to be even stranger and more lurid than what made it into this film.