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Serial [Blu-ray]

Christopher Lee (Actor), Martin Mull (Actor), Bill Persky (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Comedy
Format	Widescreen
Contributor	Christopher Lee, Martin Mull, Bill Persky
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 33 minutes

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Inspired by the Cyra McFadden novel The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, Serial is director Bill Persky's (TV's Kate & Allie) satirical look at the lifestyles of California's 1970's hippie culture. Viewed through the eyes of Harvey Holroyd (Martin Mull, TV's Roseanne), a man perplexed by the behavior of his wife Kate (Tuesday Weld, Pretty Poison) and their liberal-minded friends, Serial lampoons everything from feminism, free love and sexual politics to cults, motorcycle clubs and the random midlife crisis. The gifted ensemble cast includes Sally Kellerman (MASH), Christopher Lee (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors), Bill Macy (The Holiday), Peter Bonerz (TV's The Bob Newhart Show), Nina Talbot (Night Shift), Tom Smothers (Get To Know Your Rabbit), Pamela Bellwood (TV's Dynasty) and Stacey Nelkin (Halloween III: Season of The Witch).

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.93 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Bill Persky
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 33 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ January 19, 2016
Actors ‏ : ‎ Christopher Lee, Martin Mull
Studio ‏ : ‎ Olive
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B017PAYF6W
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Great movie!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 19, 2022

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Saw this move on patrol (while in navy) and always thought it was really funny. Watching it again, was truly a trip back in time. It captures the San Francisco scene (a bit exaggerated) in the 80's.

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Serial offers satire of the 1970s as it was going on

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2008

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Serial is a movie I have always loved. The jargon of the characters "space to grow", "I hear you", "peer group dynamics", Needing "space" and so on. Then there is the tone of the film: this is a tricky film because it makes fun of things that have taken on respectable forms today: the motivational/consciousness/psych industry as well as the excesses of the women's movement and cultural liberalism in general. New Age was just getting started then and today things like Integral and Omega institute and many of the fads from California are more respectable, so the film's decision to criticize aspects of them might strike today's viewer as provincial at best and politically reactionary at worst. On one level it is a t.v. styled comedy about a harried, beleaguered square guy not "in touch" with the cult-like fads that have overtaken his family. But as the film progresses the fads grow ever more sinister. Actor Peter Bonerz deserves mention here as the film's toxic guru. Serial is really comedy about human extremism in any form. Serial is that rarest of things: a loose, racy, adult comedy that takes seems to give some credit to a conservative view. While not a right wing film per se it points to many flaws and problems with cultural and identity liberalism in a way that refuses to be moralistic. Indeed the film is a brief against moralism, moral hypocrisy and purism. It seems to be saying that the indulgent narcissim of the affluent characters has usurped the original promise of progressive liberalism. The opening wedding ceremony with the absolute inanity of the couples' vows sets it all up. Yet how many couples today pretentiously create their own vows with similarly embarrasing results?
The acting by Tuesday Weld, Martin Mull, and Sally Kellerman is standard comedic acting, Bill Persky, the t.v. veteran, directs with a t.v. informed style. But Serial is a wonderfully mixed up workwith more questions than answers: is it saying liberal trends had become as dogmatic as the old conservatism? Are the allegedly "sexist" jokes and sympathy for mens' desire to just get some sexual attention from their wives and leave the talk about feelings points of view with which we should NOT, as Serial clearly does, sympathize? A rather daring work for its genre, all its formulaic aspects notwithstanding because Serial has a point of view. See Serial because it is dated and quite exotically remote and quaint, yet very much about the present.

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Good satire, could be better.

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I'm going to say three stars, but would make it three and a half if that were an option. Not that it means anything precise, anyway.

First, about the disc quality, I found the video acceptable if not great. The audio was a worse issue, not just muffled but sometimes a bit jumbled. And if you wanted subtitles or closed captioning to help pick up the gap, sorry, not on this DVD. It was understandable, though, with the volume turned up louder than I normally have it.

And no DVD extras. I tend to skip over those anyway, but it shows they're trying, and at least it's a talking point for the disc costing as much as it does. Or would be, if it had them.

But about the movie itself. It is good, if not quite as clever as I remembered. Seeing it as a satire just of this one community in California might miss the point. The fads shown here are part of larger cultural trends which have only grown and spread since. There's the trendy spirituality which claims to respect all beliefs, but resists difficult questions, difficult answers, or being pinned down on actual meaning. There is the psycho-babble jargon used to justify almost anything one wants to do as "healthy" and "normal". There are the new-agey beliefs about diet, mental, and physical health, accepted with little actual regard for evidence. And there is the complete self-absorption and smugness of people who can't imagine that they might actually be in the wrong, or that there even might be such things as right and wrong. The film says what it has to say, with some clever little observations along the way, but it just seems that it have could have been more. Maybe it's the acting, with a cast that seems as if it would have been more comfortable making a TV "Movie of the Week". Maybe it's the writing, which is heavy on quips, not so much on extended intelligent dialog. My three stars is a good rating, and this is certainly worth seeing once, particularly if someone releases a better edition.

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Remember the 70s

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2012

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I was really pleased to find this movie on DVD. Anyone who remembers the fads of the 70s (jogging, consciousness-raising groups, writing your own wedding vows, open marriages, disco dancing) will find plenty to laugh at in this film. Those who weren't around then will learn something about why the US is the way it is today. This is "the Me Generation", the grandparents of Generation Y. The only disappointment is that there are no English subtitles available, which surprised me. I'm used to captions for the hearing impaired being available on most Region 1 discs, and as I *am* old enough to remember the 70s, subtitles would have been nice.
There was a bit of a communications breakdown between Amazon and the seller re: delivery times. Amazon said 5-10 business days, while the seller said 4-6 weeks. As there was no tracking info, this was confusing. Fortunately it arrived somewhere in the middle of the 2 estimates.

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