Cinema Verite | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | April 20, 2012
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A (possibly) fictionalized account of American TV's first attempt at making a "reality" series. Well composed and well performed.
| genre | Drama | television |
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| synopsis | In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary |
| lead actors | Tim Robbins | Diane Lane | James Gandolfini | Thomas Dekker | Kaitlyn Dever | Kathleen Quinlan | Patrick Fugit |
| director | Robert Pulcini | Shari Springer Berman |