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The Brady Bunch Movie is a 1995 comedy film adaptation of the classic 1969-1974 television series The Brady Bunch, produced by Paramount Pictures. The film stars new actors that play all the main characters.

The Brady Bunch Movie placed the original sitcom characters, with their 1970s fashion sense and 1970s sitcom family morality, in a contemporary 1990s setting and parodied the resulting culture clash.

The movie was a hit and was followed by A Very Brady Sequel
in 1996.

Parodies and Similar Storylines:

Through the movie, there are moments and plotlines which were taken straight from episodes from the original television series. These moments are:

Jan's jealously of Marcia (My Sister's Shadow),
Peter's voice breaking (Dough Re Me),
Bobby's being a safety monitor at school (Law and Disorder),
Alice and Sam (various episodes),
Mike's boss (various episodes),
Cindy being a tattletale (The Tattletale),
Marcia's football incident (The Trouble With Noses), and others.

Plot

The movie begins with the Brady's next door neighbor Mr. Dittmeyer (an unscruplous real estate developer) being chewed out by someone on his cellular phone. After he utters the line, "What's the story," the long-familiar opening begins.

The Bradys are the last holdouts in Mr. Dittmeyer's scheme to raze the neighborhood in lieu of a new shopping mall. After being warned not to tattle, Cindy is sent to the Dittmeyers to see if they got their mail again; unknown to the Bradys, Mr. Dittmeyer has been stealing their mail. He is fully aware they are delinquent on their property taxes and have been threatened with foreclosure if they fail to meet a fast-looming deadline.

Cindy soon learns of Mr. Dittmeyer's plans and attempts to warn her parents, only for her to be admonished by her naïve parents for tattling. After all, they are more concerned with Peter's voice entering puberty and Jan hearing psychotic voices in her head crying "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!". Jan goes to the school counselor Mrs. Cummings (played by RuPaul), who advises her to consider a new look, one that will make her stand out from her sisters and be noticed. Jan enthusiastically accepts the advice, and Mrs. Cummings asks her to return when she's pregnant. Jan later purchases a huge black wig, but is still overshadowed by Marcia.

At school, Marcia has caught the eye of that hunk, Doug Simpson (as well as lesbian classmate, Noreen Alanna Ubach). She accepts his offer to go to the school dance, but forgets that she has asked nice-but-unspectacular Charley out. Greg's advice is to use the same line that other girls have used on him: "Something suddenly came up." Before the dance, Doug takes Marcia out for a drive in the country, parks the car and attempts to have sex with the lovely Brady girl (he french kisses her). Marcia tells him that she isn't interested, and a disgusted Doug leaves her stranded at the side of the road. At the dance, Greg does his "Johnny Bravo" impression and is heartily booed offstage. Marcia arrives later and introduces the star performer of the night, Davy Jones. Although years past his Monkees heyday, he gets a rousing reception, particularly from the teachers present. Marcia arrives at the dance and apologizes to Charley, who forgives her and asks her to dance with him. Doug, seeing Marcia with Charley, becomes jealous and calls her a slut. Charley attempts to confront Doug unsuccessfully. Noreen, witnessing the entire incident, punches Doug in the face, knocking him unconscious. When Marcia sees Doug on the floor, she assumes it was Charley who punched him out and is flattered. Marcia and Charley leave the dance together, and Noreen is heartbroken (but soon comforted by another attractive girl). Charley takes Marcia home, who promptly gives him the thrill of a lifetime with a french kiss of her own.

Mr. Dittmeyer, knowing the Bradys have received their final notice for their past-due property taxes, attempts to sweeten his offer to Mike for the Brady property. Mike tells him no amount of money will convince his family to move. Cindy overhears the conversation and reveals her findings to her siblings. The Bradys hastily look for work to raise the needed funds by the deadline. Eventually, the kids audition for – and win a spot on – the TV talent series "Search for the Stars."

Things go from bad to worse. Mike loses a contract which was to front him a $20,000 advance at the architectural firm, thanks to Mr. Dittmeyer lying to a client about the allegedly substandard safety standards of Mike's buildings.

On the night before the Bradys have to move, Jan – having grown progressively more insecure about her place in the family – decides to run away. However, "Schultzy" (Ann B. Davis) picks her up and convinces her to return home.

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