In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.

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Cast

Diane Lane

Pat Loud

Tim Robbins

Bill Loud

James Gandolfini

Craig Gilbert

Thomas Dekker

Lance Loud

Caitlin Custer

Delilah Loud

Kaitlyn Dever

Michele Loud

Nick Eversman

Grant Loud

Johnny Simmons

Kevin Loud

Patrick Fugit

Alan Raymond

Shanna Collins

Susan Raymond

Jake Richardson

Tommy Goodwin

Kathleen Quinlan

Mary Every