An American Family Revisited
American Family Revisited is a ten-year update on the Loud family and their reflections on becoming the first reality TV stars. Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond, who filmed the original 12-hour cinema vérité series An American Family and spent seven months recording over 300 hours of film, revisited the Loud family a decade later for a new family profile. The Raymonds had continued their friendship with the family members over these past ten years and knew that their unique experience of becoming media celebrities, coupled with the effects of a family's divorce, had changed them in many ways. The filmmakers wanted to explore a first-hand report from each family member on how they were affected by these two dramatic life experiences.
60 min. 1983