Home Movies (1981)

Directors

Brian de Palma

Cast

Nancy Allen, Mary Davenport, Kirk Douglas, Vincent Gardenia, Keith Gordon, Gerrit Graham, Loretta Tupper

The story

A film instructor known as The Maestro champions a technique called "Star Power"—which teaches students how to avoid the fate of becoming "an extra in your own life," since "the camera never lies." His pupil Dennis Byrd films everything that happens at home, and is presented as a "tragic example of someone who refused to star in his own life." Dennis has a rivalry with his more favored brother James, who runs a 70s-style EST-type summer camp called "Spartanetics", a mother prone to dramatic outbursts, and a philandering father.

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