The Brady Bunch Movie
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| Directed by | Betty Thomas |
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The Brady Bunch by Sherwood Schwartz |
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| Cinematography | Mac Ahlberg |
| Edited by | Peter Teschner |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $54.1 million |
The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 American comedy film based on the 1969–1974 television series The Brady Bunch. The film was directed by Betty Thomas, with a screenplay by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie and Terry Turner, and stars Shelley Long, Gary Cole and Michael McKean. The film places the original sitcom characters, with their 1970s fashion sense and 1970s sitcom family morality, in a contemporary 1990s setting, drawing humor from the resulting culture clash.
The Brady Bunch Movie was released in the United States on February 17, 1995. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing over $54 million worldwide. A sequel titled A Very Brady Sequel was released on August 23, 1996, and a television film titled The Brady Bunch in the White House was aired on November 29, 2002.
The film opens with a montage of scenes reflecting life in the 1990s, with heavy traffic, rushing commuters, and homeless people on the street. Larry Dittmeyer, an unscrupulous real estate developer, explains to his boss that almost all the families in his neighborhood have agreed to sell their property as part of a plan to turn the area into a shopping mall. The only exception is one family, which prompts his angry boss to ask, "Why the hell not?! What's their story?", which leads into the opening blue-box credits of The Brady Bunch.
The concept of the film is that although it is set in the 1990s, the Brady family are still portrayed as their 1970s television incarnations and are unaware of the disparity between their lives and their surroundings. The parents, Mike and Carol, are having breakfast prepared by their housekeeper, Alice, while the six children prepare for school. Jan is jealous of her elder, popular sister Marcia ; Cindy is tattling about everything she's hearing; Greg is dreaming of becoming a singer (but sings folk songs more appropriate to the seventies); Peter is nervous that his voice is breaking; Bobby is excited about his new role as hall monitor at school.
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