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Lost in America

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Overview

Bored with their cushy suburban existence, yuppie David (Albert Brooks) talks his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) into selling everything they own and hitting the road to "see America." As a starting-over gesture, David and Linda are romantically remarried in Las Vegas -- which, ironically, proves to be the beginning of the end of their idyll. In short order, Linda loses their life's savings, the couple nearly self-destructs at Hoover Dam, they take blue-collar jobs in a go-nowhere Arizona town, and....Well, if you know your Albert Brooks, be prepared for a steady stream of manic social satire.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/25/2017
UPC:	0715515201414
Original Release:	1985
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen, Color]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	31,244

Special Features

New digital transfer, supervised by director Albert Brooks; New conversation with Brooks and filmmaker Robert Weide; New Interviews with actor Julie Hagerty, executive producer Herb Nanas, and filmmaker and screenwriter James L. Brooks; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Albert Brooks	David Howard
Julie Hagerty	Linda Howard
Garry Marshall	Casino Manager
Art Frankel	Employment Agent
Michael Greene	Paul Dunn
Maggie Roswell	Patty
Tom Tarpey	Brad Tooley
Ernie Brown	Pharmacist
Charles Boswell	Highway Patrolman
Donald Gibb	Ex-Convict
Barbara Claman	Actor
Sylvia Farrel	Receptionist
Tina Kincaid	Model
Candy Ann Brown	David's Secretary
Hans Wagner	Hans
Brandy Rubin	Paul Dunn's Secretary
Robert Hughes	Security Guard
Ray Gideon	Ray
John di Fusco	Motorcyclist
Michael Cornelison	Front Desk Clerk
Radu Gavor	Bellman
John C. Reade	Casino Security Guard
Pat Garrison	Roulette Croupier
Byron Tong	Roulette Player
Gayle Lanza	Hostess
Zeke Manners	Trailer Park Couple
Bea Manners	Trailer Park Couple
Mark Sydney	Boy on Bicycle
David Katz	Boy on Bicycle
Raul Flores	Boy on Bicycle
Herb Nanas	Mercedes Driver
Joey Coleman	Skippy
Rex Reed	Himself (on radio)

Technical Credits

Albert Brooks	Director,Screenwriter
Dick Albain	Special Effects
Cynthia Bales	Costumes/Costume Designer
David Finfer	Editor
Richard C. Goddard	Set Decoration/Design
Monica Johnson	Screenwriter
Martin F. Katz	Producer,Production Manager
Herb Nanas	Executive Producer
Bill Nelson	Musical Direction/Supervision
Artur Rubinstein	Score Composer
Eric Saarinen	Cinematographer
Richard Sawyer	Production Designer
Rick Sharp	Makeup

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Lost in America (Criterion Collection)
1. "Why That House?"
2. Linda And David Go To Work
3. David's Promotion
4. "Quit Your Job"
5. Motor-Home Shopping
6. Born To Be Wild
7. First Stop: Las Vegas
8. "Twenty-Two!"
9. "The Desert Inn Has Heart"
10. The Nest-Egg Principle
11. "I've Lost A Woman"
12. License And Registration
13. Safford, Arizona
14. David Looks For A Job
15. "Don't Call Me Retardo"
16. Der Wienerschnitzel
17. "Brad!"

Editorial Reviews

Albert Brooks, master of the slow burn, was the director and co-writer, with Monica Johnson, behind this masterful evisceration of the materialistic values of 1980s American yuppie culture. In a wicked parody of the Me Generation, Brooks' protagonists' ideals are presented as a dark reflection of the idealism that suffered such a hard death after the 1960s. Lost in America's satirical emulation of Easy Rider sees David and Linda Howard not traveling the American hinterland on a chopper but roaming interstates in a gas-hogging Winnebago and talking reverently of the cocoon-like comfort that their "nest egg" provides. Initially aimed at finding the "real" America (they want to "touch the Indians"), the journey ultimately leads to Las Vegas, the heart of the American Dream's darkness. The greed of an entire money-obsessed generation is spread out before us in these moments, and Brooks' ability to turn his horror and disgust into our amusement is without parallel in movies of the era. Implicit in his rage is a challenge issued to his generation: is this the best you can do? Both Brooks and Julie Hagerty distinguish themselves in a cast that includes a classic supporting performance by Garry Marshall, whose explanation of the purpose of a casino to a flustered and desperate Brooks is a masterpiece of comic understatement. Brooks is not exactly a visionary with a camera, but his dialogue sings, and his near-hysterical exasperation as David is exactly right for the movie, one of cinema's most effectively vicious and hilarious satires of the 1980s.

All Movie Guide - Dan Jardine