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Mood:
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Plot:
- Parents and ChildrenSiblings RelationsDysfunctional FamilyEccentric FamilyFamily BusinessWorkplaceYouthFamily Problems more...
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Genres:
- ComedyMockumentary
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- USASuburbs
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEmmy WinnerOriginal
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Humor:
- SatireSilly Humor
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- Ensemble CastVoice OverSurreal
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- Not SeriousRealisticFast
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- Sexual Content
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Arrested Development, 2003 - 2006
English
USA
Profile of Arrested Development
The mood of Arrested Development is offbeat, witty, and humorous. The plot centers around a family business, an eccentric family, and a workplace. It features satire and silly humor. Arrested Development is a comedy TV show. Stylistically, it is a mockumentary, is surreal, and includes a voice over. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. The pacing of Arrested Development is fast. It takes place, at least partly, in the suburbs. The setting is the USA. Arrested Development happens in contemporary times. The TV show is known for being original, an Emmy winner, and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes sexual content.
Summary of Arrested Development
The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by the fortune patriarch George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) made in the tract home development business. Oldest son George Oscar Bluth II, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues, while the youngest son Buster whiles away his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) is a vain socialite who throws parties with her sexually ambiguous husband (David Cross, MR. SHOW). The only sane member of the family is Linsay's twin brother Michael (Jason Bateman), a widower who stands to inherit the reins to the family corporation when his father retires. However, at the retirement party some unexpected obstacles are thrown into the mix: Michael, having informed the family that his first task as head of the company will be to confiscate everyone's credit cards, is passed over in favor of his snobby alcoholic mother, Lucille (Jessica Walter). Just when Michael decides to wash his hands of the family and move to Arizona with his 13-year-old son George Michael, George is arrested on fraud charges and the family's assets are frozen. Michael is forced to step up and aid his family in adjusting to their new lives. Shot with a shaky camera and a documentary air that creates a feeling of intimacy with the characters, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT is reminiscent of Wes Anderson's THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS and Christopher Guest's mockumentaries. Truly unique in the realm of TV sitcoms, it employs a cinematic humor that often exhibits a dark side. While targeting the filthy rich and the squeaky clean families of prime time, it also displays a certain tragedy in the characters' eccentricities and helplessness.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 2 November 2003 |
| Runtime: | 30 min |
| Seasons: | 3 |
Cast and Crew
as Michael Bluth 53 episodes, 2003-2006
as George Bluth Sr. 53 episodes, 2003-2006
as Lindsay Bluth Fünke 53 episodes, 2003-2006
as Lucille Bluth 53 episodes, 2003-2006
as Tobias Fünke 53 episodes, 2003-2006
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- 22.March.2009
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- by: coolerking
- coolerking rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 21.March.2009
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- by: Joshua Thomas
- Joshua Thomas rated this movie10/10Must See
