Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 07/01/2008
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount Pictures/Legend Films
There are no cliff-hanging moments in
Serial, but there's plenty of laughs in this trenchant comedy comment on 1970s lifestyles.
Martin Mull plays the father of a Marin County family that succumbs to every silly fad coming down the pike. Mull tries to distance himself from his family's idiocies, but it's always the man who pays the piper. The film, based on a collection of newspaper essays by
Cyra McFadden, is neatly tied up with a
Capraesque ending allowing Mull to finally prevail. Some of the best moments involves Mull's tiltings with his trend-happy neighbor
Bill Macy.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
