Lost in America
First screened in the late 1990s / Most recently screened in August 2025
Director: Albert Brooks. Cast: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Michael Greene, Tom Tarpey, Raynold Gideon, Michael Cornelison, Garry Marshall, Donald Gibb, Charles Boswell, Art Frankel. Screenplay: Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson.
In Brief:
Darkly funny vision of white-collar boomers torn between lives they resent and youths they idealize. Hagerty wins.
VOR:④
The earliest Brooks I've seen, so I think I'm missing him at his peaks, but this one has a distinctive flavor and voice. I get why he's influential.
