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 "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.
Acting
Diane Lane's brittle grace, Gandolfini's predatory charm
Direction
Directors who made 'American Splendor' understand meta
Production
Lovingly recreated 1973 Santa Barbara dread
Director
Robert Pulcini
Diane Lane
Pat Loud
Tim Robbins
Bill Loud
James Gandolfini
Craig Gilbert
Thomas Dekker
Lance Loud
Caitlin Custer
Delilah Loud
Kaitlyn Dever
Michele Loud
Nick Eversman
Grant Loud
Johnny Simmons
Kevin Loud
Patrick Fugit
Alan Raymond
Shanna Collins
Susan Raymond
Jake Richardson
Tommy Goodwin
Kathleen Quinlan
Mary Every
Lolita Davidovich
Val
Matt O'Leary
Cameron
Stephen Caffrey
Tom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Lance Loud became MTV's first on-air VJ and first openly gay TV personality, dying of AIDS in 2001.
The original 'An American Family' aired on PBS in 1973 and was considered a failure until scholars rebranded it as revolutionary.
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