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Name: First Family
Released: 1980-12-25
Cast: Gilda Radner, Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Richard Benjamin, Bob Dishy

First Family

R
1h 44m
1980

20%

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When the bumbling President of the United States (Bob Newhart), the semi-alcoholic First Lady (Madeline Kahn) and their aspiring nymphomaniac daughter (Gilda Radner) face a sliding approval rating and a thermonuclear confrontation, the President decides to go on an ill-advised state visit to a previously unknown sub-Saharan country with the dysfunctional First Family.

Director:

Buck Henry

Producer:

Daniel Melnick

Writer:

Buck Henry

Cast:

Gilda Radner, Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Richard Benjamin, Bob Dishy, Harvey Korman, Austin Pendleton, Rip Torn, Fred Willard, John Hancock, Julius Harris, Buck Henry

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

20%

Reviews

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

Disappointing acerbic political satire directed and written by Buck Henry.

What is the sound of one man not laughing?

Buck Henry directed his own screenplay, which disintegrates about halfway through the film.

[First Family] has sequences that are side-splittingly funny, others that are sublimely cheerful and still others that, like the movie itself, simply don't know how to end.

August 15, 2017

FULL REVIEW

TV Guide

Filled with illogical situations and juvenile humor, First Family will have trouble getting anybody's vote.

June 22, 2017

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