Lost in America
Lost in America
R | 08 February 1985 (USA)
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David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

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ChikPapa

Very disappointed :(

Colibel

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

PlatinumRead

Just so...so bad

Celia

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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betty dalton

"Lost In America" is a subtle comedy portraying all the troubles that will rain down on you, once you decide to drop out in a campervan and start roaming the united states of america.The midlife crisis jokes are true to life. Many married adult, grinding away at his boring job will find recognition in this story about wanting to break free from all the shackles that the daily boring routine presses down upon us.The humor of director, writer and actor Albert Brooks is probably only suited for a smaller audience, who can appreciate subtle midlife crisis humor. Younger people who long for a fast and straight funny movie might find it boring.

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SnoopyStyle

David (Albert Brooks) is an ad exec expecting a big promotion. He and Linda Howard (Julie Hagerty) have sold their house for a bigger house. Instead of being the new senior VP, he's being shipped to NY for their new Ford account. He goes ballistic and gets fired. David convinces Linda to quit her job and abandon their successful yuppie lives to find themselves like 'Easy Rider'. They sell everything and buy a Winnebago. They go to Vegas to get remarried but things go terribly wrong when Linda loses all of their money gambling.The movie starts a little slow. I rather they get to the Winnebago faster. Albert Brooks is wildly talkative. Julie Hagerty is adorably hilarious. She is just insanely funny when she loses her money. The little hearts bridal suit is really the start of the laughs. There are some great laughs although Albert Brooks could sharpening his directing skills. He tends to run on and on.

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Chris Zizzo

It started out with such promise. I love Brooks' humor. Most people I know don't, but the idea that this yuppie was going to engineer a "find yourself" tour of America for himself and his unwilling wife in a Winnebago held out the promise of a rich minefield of comedy to come. After Julie Hagerty's character loses the entire nest egg in their first stop in Vegas, I couldn't watch the movie anymore and I walked out by the time they got to the Grand Canyon.I don't know if it was just my disappointment at Albert Brooks' use of such an obvious situational device as the loss of all the money to set up the rest of the film, or my own sense of unquenchable murderous rage at the wife for having been so weak and stupid to lose every dime and completely undermine the rest of their lives, but I could not watch another frame of this movie, and have not gone back to it to this day. Once you lose heart, once you can no longer maintain the willing suspension of disbelief, you are through with a film. "Defending Your Life" was so brilliant. This was just awful.

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rbrb

This movie is mildly entertaining and faintly amusing; but could of been a lot better. The lead actor also directs and most of the scenes in the film go on too long and are far too self-indulgent and are not very funny.The story is: A company executive thinks he will get promoted but does not and in a huff decides to leave his well paid job and take his wife and to do an "Easy Rider" across America in a trailer.Our executive is not the type to do that kind of thing being basically a greedy self centred person, and he soon discovers the errors of his ways, but the film ending is vague and unsatisfactory. I ask rhetorically: what is it with these movie people who try to tell the rest of us how to behave when in reality unlike what is portrayed in this film and with the type of individuals involved they would never ever do what is depicted in the story, but rather be falling over themselves to try to make another buck?I think my 4/10 is generous!

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