The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff Bridges. At the boy's suggestion, Betz and Miles pack their family--including grandma Ruth McDevitt--into a 1928 Greyhound bus and hit the road, in search of you-know-where. The picaresque plotline brings the family in contact with a variety of colorful
Feb 21, 2002
An offbeat television pilot film, this entertaining tale with a charming family that takes to the road together to experience the land and its variety of people. Jeff Bridges (of 1974's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a Clint Eastwood co-star), is very good in the lead role of the catalyst of the venture. He convinces his
February 1, 2010
Brings back some memories I'd like to forget - thank goodness this pilot never sold. BTW: Father is played by Carl Betz from the Donna Reed show, the quintessenal television actor with a range from A->B
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