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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0844503000354
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Legend Films
Manufacturer: Legend Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Legend Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2008
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 6369
Studio: Legend Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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Product Description:
Harvey Holroyd (Martin Mull) is a Marin County resident who is surrounded by strangeness. His family, neighbors and co-workers all seem consumed by the fads and trends of the late '70s, and it's getting to be too much to take. Sex, drugs, psychobabble and health food - it's enough to drive anyone insane! Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee and Tommy Smothers help make up a wacky all-star cast. Serial is a biting and hilarious satire of late '70s California life that seems eerily prophetic three decades later.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Marin County Morons
This is a brilliant satire of Marin County, California residents and their obsessions with "New Age" nonsense; political correctness, weird sexual fads, "finding" one's self, religious cults, and ridiculous psycho-babble terminology. While this movie was made in 1980, its satire is still (sad to say) applicable in today's California.
Martin Mull, in his first starring role, plays the only seemingly sane person in his circle of friends (as his precocious young neighbor points out, "The ... Read More
Rating: - Great Film - Poor video quality
SerialThis is one of my all time favorite movies; the perfect send up of pompous bay area dilatantes. I waited a long time for this film to come out on DVD; while the film is still as funny as I remembered it, the print quality is terrible.
Rating:  - Yet another 5-star film with a 1-star remastering. Boo! Hiss!
Methinks the previous reviewers did not actually SCREEN Paramount's DVD reissue of "Serial"? Otherwise, I don't think they would actually be THANKING the studio for releasing this bootleg quality abomination.
Don't get me wrong-I love this film; it's a precursor to Michael Tolkin's 1994 satire, "The New Age", a similarly savage send up of California trendies (another great film still M.I.A. on DVD, BTW). But... as for the disc quality?
Gosh, where shall I start?
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Rating:  - The Marin County Line
Forgetting for a moment that this DVD looks mediocre at best, with poorly balanced and muffled sound, I've still got to recommend it.
Everything about this movie is pure catnip for me - the ferry boat, making dates for the orgy, the Volvo, Preacher Tommy Smothers' New Age emasculating wedding vows, communes, hot tubs, Mill Valley shrinks, coke, my Hollywood High School classmate Tuesday Weld as the aspiring New Age Marinite, and Christopher Lee with his fleet of gay bikers.
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Rating: - Pretty relevant today
The description above calls this a "satire of late '70s California life that seems eerily prophetic three decades later. ", and that's pretty accurate. The movie is a satire on "political correctness" years before the term came into use. All the PC characters come across as the most pretentious group of people imagineable, with Mull's character increasingly fighting the phoniness surrounding him. The ridiculous funeral scene really stands out. A small but very well-done movie.
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