Home Movies

SLC. Dir Brian De Palma; Producer Brian De Palma, Jack Temchin, Gil Adler; Screenplay Robert Harders, Gloria Norris, Kim Ambler, Dana Edelman, Stephen Le May, Charles Loventhal; Camera James L. Carter; Editor Corky Ohara; Music Pino Donaggio Art Dir Tom Surgal

Kirk Douglas
Nancy Allen
Keith Gordon
Gerrit Graham
Vincent Gardenia

Home Movies, resulted from Brian De Palma teaching students at Sarah Lawrence College, New York, how to make films by making one with them.

The story has Kirk Douglas running a cult called Star Therapy. He exhorts each pupil to 'put you name above the title' in life. Practicing what he preaches, he has his own life continuously filmed, with himself as director and star. The sessions, filmed with a mask reducing the frame, as if by Douglas' own 16mm camera crew, are recurrently hilarious.

Singling out one pupil as an example of 'an extra in his own life', Douglas spurs the boy - engagingly played by Keith Gordon - into an ego-quest which involves a successful pursuit of his elder brother's fiancee and some laughably inept attempts to film himself doing not-so-dramatic things like falling asleep.

(Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1979. Running time: 90 MIN.

Variety is striving to present the most thorough review database. To report inaccuracies in review credits, please click here. We do not currently list below-the-line credits, although we hope to include them in the future. Please note we may not respond to every suggestion. Your assistance is appreciated.