I saw this at a salon-like DVD party at Bruce Sylvester’s and that was half the fun of it. Thanks Bruce. This is an odd family road trip movie written, directed, produced, etc by Allen Wagner. It stars his mom, dad, two sisters and several friends. The dysfunctional but long-lived Wagner family take a trip cross country to find Allen, who’s just not responding to their calls. He is, of course, filming the whole thing. They are a mid-60s parents, mid 30s daughters. Dad has diabetes, high blood pressure, and probably had a stroke. Mom is intense and controlling. All are totally open about sex, their affairs, etc. Not any family I know, or am I just from a repressed background?. Elder sister is an aspiring actress and LA phony?. The other bails early, totally freaked. Is this part of the script or not?. Has to be to get friend Judy into the car. All are total narcissists. Most are heavily medicated. It is a funny trip, a bit longish, and there isn’t a lot of emotional downtime, since they live their lives like Woody Allen’s family in Annie Hall but on steroids. Wagner’s camera follows his parents and sisters into their bedrooms, their intimate lives. Is this scripted?. Real?. Who amongst us truly wants to film our parents about to get it on?. The Lound family redux? Who can tell. Some of course is silly conceit (they’re looking for Allen but he’s filming, they head west with nothing but the cloths on their backs but soon have a U-Haul full of cloths, an old girlfriend of Allen’s describes their relationship as a nightmare as she enters into her new life as a minister who issues popous graces) but the rest?. It’s well worth watching although it’s really painful in parts.