The Brady Bunch Movie The Brady Bunch Movie 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. It also features cameos from Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and RuPaul, and the original cast of "The Brady Bunch" (except Eve Plumb and Robert Reed [the latter of whom died in 1992]) in new roles. The film places the original sitcom characters, with their 1970s fashion sense
The Wild Bunch publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from "a reporter from the "Reader's Digest" [who] got up to ask 'Why was this film ever made?'" He compared the film to "Pulp Fiction": "praised and condemned with equal vehemence." "What "Citizen Kane" was to movie lovers in 1941, "The Wild Bunch" was to cineastes in 1969," wrote film critic Michael Sragow, adding that Peckinpah had "produced an American movie that equals or surpasses the best of Kurosawa: the Gotterdammerung of Westerns". Produced on a budget of $6 million, the film grossed $10.5 million at