Lost In America (1985)

Rated R for some language and sexual references

 

Runtime: 1 hour and 31 minutes

 

Genre: Comedy and Romance

 

Director: Albert Brooks

 

Writer: Albert Brooks and Monica Mcgowan Johnson

Cinematography: Eric Saarinen

 

Actors: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Michael Greene, Tom Tarpey and Garry Marshall

 

Budget: $4,000,000

 

Box Office: $10,179,000

 

Feedback: Lost In America is an acceptable film. I could have a few laughs and enjoy a few scenes that I liked, but though it isn't very strong.

The story is fine. It seems that this is going back and fourth to where the place had started. I guess that the middle class and income of the characters works.

Although the movie doesn't really affect the story, it just affects both the pacing and the moral argument on why does the trip have to be important to the plot. The pacing might have issues, not because of the comedy or jokes, but what choices had going on with what they are specfically going in America. Does the money mean that much to these characters? Where are they actually going, if they are lost?

The actors did really good at acting. Albert Brooks is very intelligent actor that he knows about the movie itself. Linda is sweet. The other side characters are not bad. The characters comedy are funny and enjoyable.

Even though the actors did good, the dialogue was too much to handle. But the dialogue does make the audience feel like they understand the characterization and motivation of how David is giving a lot of examples of what he has been going through.

The music choices were good. Easy Rider is a good song to put in while they travel. The background music does have good variety.

The camera has really good shots, the tracking shots follows the characters are spetacular and the editing is right there.

As a whole, this is a nice comedy film.

 

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (6.5)

Character 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (7)

Dialogue/Diction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (6.5)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

Background Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (5)

35.5/50                                           7.2/10