Monday 7 February 2011

Lost in America, a comedy that’s actually funny

Lost in America is a 1985 comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and co stars Julie Hagerty of Airplane fame.

I’m not a great fan of the sitcoms that are out today like The Office and 30 Rock. Call me crazy, but I think a good comedy is supposed to make me laugh. But these writers in Hollyeood today don’t know from funny.

Lost in America is about a 1980s upper middleclass couple that chooses to drop out of socieety to find real menaing in their lives. So they sell their home and all their pocessions to ramble through Americain a Winobego, only to have the wife blows all their money at a stop over in Las Vegas.