Lost in America is a 1985 satirical road comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson. The film stars Brooks alongside Julie Hagerty as a married couple who decide to quit their jobs and travel across America.
Lost In America (1985)
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around America...in a Winnebago! (This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of Easy Rider.) His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly wrong.
Director: Albert Brooks
Stars: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel ...
“A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.”
Lost In America (1985)
Directed: Albert Brooks
Produced: Marty Katz
Written: Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson
Starring: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel, Tina Kincaid
Music: Arthur B. Rubinstein
Cinematography: Eric Saarinen
Edited: David Finfer
Distributed: Warner Bros.
Release date: March 15, 1985
Running time: 91 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Soundtrack Credits
Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)
Written by Quincy Jones (uncredited), Rod Temperton (uncredited) and Merria Ross (uncredited)
Performed by Donna Summer
Born to Be Wild
Written by Mars Bonfire (uncredited)
Performed by Steppenwolf
It's You Alone
Performed by Gail Davies
The Big W
(from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963))
by Ernest Gold
Bubbles in the Wine
Written by Bob Calame (uncredited), Frank Loesser (uncredited) and Lawrence Welk (uncredited)
Performed by Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music Makers
New York, New York
Written by John Kander (uncredited) and Fred Ebb (uncredited)
Performed by Frank Sinatra
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