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- 1985
- R
- The Geffen Company
- 1 h 31 m
- 1985
- R
- The Geffen Company
- 1 h 31 m
Summary A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.
Directed By: Albert Brooks
Written By: Monica Mcgowan Johnson, Albert Brooks
- 1985
- R
- The Geffen Company
- 1 h 31 m
- 1985
- R
- The Geffen Company
- 1 h 31 m
Lost in America
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7.4
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Summary A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.
Directed By: Albert Brooks
Written By: Monica Mcgowan Johnson, Albert Brooks
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
78
70% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The empty promise of the American dream is the implicit subject of most of his films, but in Lost in America, they’re the most exquisitely drawn. Failure and pettiness haunt David and Linda, and Brooks finds compelling ways to frame them.
Albert Brooks is one of the few, maybe the only, comic filmmakers making movies today with laughs that hurt. A very funny--and therefore neurotic--young man, Brooks places himself in all sorts of contemporary situations in his movies, situations that force him to whine like a baby to get what he wants. He's the filmmaker for the Baby Boom generation.
Lost In America is equally potent as a satire of the road movie and of the American dream of endless mobility and escape.
No one portrays and skewers really intelligent morons the way Albert Brooks does. Oddly enough Lost in America has a lot of similarities to everybody’s favorite TV show Green Acres. They are both about men who have dropped out of society and their inability to convince all the insane people in their world about the usefulness of common sense and rationality in an insane world.
A yuppie mid-life crisis is in the offing, and Albert Brooks has made it the basis for Lost in America, an inspired comedy in his own drily distinctive style.
Both leads are likeable and have the cutting neuroses that Brooks delivers so well. They can’t really carry the film until the dramatic plot twist but from then on its all good fun.
Just when it seemed Albert Brooks had gotten his creative energies under control, along comes this intermittently funny, often overdone comedy that could have been a classic.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.4
64% Positive
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