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

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Cast:
Martin Mull - Harvey Holroyd
Tuesday Weld - Kate
Sally Kellerman - Martha
Anthony Battaglia - Stokeley
Nita Talbot - Angela
Bill Macy - Sam
Pamela Bellwood - Carol
Barbara Rhoades - Vivian
Ann Weldon - Rachel
Peter Bonerz - Leonard
Jon Fong - Wong
Christopher Lee - Luckman/Skull
Patch MacKenzie - Stella
Tom Smothers - Rev. Spike
Clark Brandon - Spenser
Clyde Ventura - Donald

Production:
Bill Persky - Director
Sidney Beckerman - Producer
Lalo Schifrin - Composer
John W. Wheeler - Editor
Michael Elias Rich Eustis - Screen Writer
Paul Dal Porto - Set Designer
Rexford Metz - Cinematographer
Jerry Sobul - First Assistant Director
Bruce Miller - Musical Arrangement
William Sandell - Production Designer
Robert Gould - Set Decorator
Lalo Schifrin - Songwriter
Norman Gimbel - Songwriter
Jack Solomon - Sound/Sound Designer
Cyra McFadden - Book Author

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