Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films
It’s a Julie Haggerty double bill! First, Make Up, a short film written and directed by local filmmaker Scott Tuft, who will participate in a Q&A after the show. Then we’ll show Albert Brooks’ Lost in America.
In this hysterical road comedy, an acerbic send up of Reagan-era values, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, and hit the open road—you know, “like in Easy Rider.” Chasing fantasies of freedom, they encounter nothing but setbacks—especially a disastrous detour to Las Vegas—the depths of their own delusions, and the limits of the American Dream. Brooks’s barbed wit and confident direction—plus the comedy chops of co-writer Monica Johnson, a scribe on such pioneering TV institutions as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Laverne & Shirley, and It’s Garry Shandling’s Show—drive Lost in America, an iconic example of his trademark comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in an implacable modern world.