The absolute first thing most people will think after watching HBO's film, "Cinema Verite," is that they need to put the landmark PBS documentary and godfather of the reality genre, "An American Family," at the top of their NetFlix queue.
Don't bother. You can't rent it.
And therein lies what has to be the strangest twist to the HBO film that tries to tell the story of what happened when an American family - which appears to have thought, at least in passing, that they were in some way the perfect, not just typical, American family - allows a TV crew inside their lives.
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