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The Brady Bunch Movie storyline. Larry Dittmeyer, an unscrupulous real estate developer, explains to his supervisor that almost all the families in his neighborhood have agreed to sell their property as part of a plan to turn the area into a shopping mall, except for the Brady family.
At the Bradys’ house, Mike and Carol are having breakfast prepared by their housekeeper, Alice, while the six children prepare for school. Jan is jealous of her elder, popular sister Marcia. Cindy is tattling about everything she’s hearing. Greg is dreaming of becoming a singer (but sings folk songs more appropriate to the seventies). Peter is nervous that his voice is breaking. Bobby is excited about his new role as hall monitor at school.
Cindy gives Mike and Carol a tax delinquency notice (which was earlier mistakenly delivered to the Dittmeyers) stating that they face foreclosure on their house if they do not pay $20,000 in back taxes. The two initially ignore the crisis, but when Mike’s architectural design (which is exactly the same as their house) is turned down by two potential clients, he tells Carol that they may have to sell the house.
Cindy overhears this and tells her siblings and they look for work to raise money to save the house, but their earnings are nowhere near enough to reach the required sum. Mike manages to sell a Japanese company on one of his dated designs, thereby securing the money, only for Larry to sabotage it by claiming that Mike’s last building collapsed.
On the night before the Bradys have to move out, Marcia suggests that they enter a “Search for the Stars” contest, the prize of which is exactly $20,000. Jan, having originally suggested this and been rejected, runs away from home. Cindy sees her leave and tattles, and the whole family goes on a search for her. They use their car’s citizens’ band radio, and their transmission is heard by Schultzy, a driver who picks up Jan and convinces her to return home.
The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 American comedy film based on the 1969–1974 television series The Brady Bunch. The film was directed by Betty Thomas, with a screenplay by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie and Terry Turner, and stars Shelley Long, Gary Cole and Michael McKean. The film places the original sitcom characters, with their 1970s fashion sense and 1970s sitcom family morality, in a contemporary 1990s setting, drawing humor from the resulting culture clash.
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Starring: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor, hristopher Daniel Barnes, Jennifer Elise Cox, Paul Sutera, Henriette Mantel, Jesse Lee Soffer, Olivia Hack
Screenplay by: Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
Production Design by: Steven J. Jordan
Cinematography by: Mac Ahlberg
Film Editing by: Peter Teschner
Costume Design by: Rosanna Norton
Set Decoration by: Lynn Wolverton-Parker
Art Direction by: William J. Durrell Jr., Nanci Roberts
Music by: Lionel Cole, Guy Moon
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for racy innuendos.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: February 17, 1995
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