«Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You» provides an affectionate profile of
the revered television writer and producer whose groundbreaking sitcom, «All in the Family,» confronted and obliterated countless taboos during its acclaimed run in the 1970's.
It speaks of final breaks from the past (the
writer of an old
television show Walter
reveres and partly credits for his survival in Vietnam is cocooned in an ancient iron lung) and of the hopelessness of the future in the old guard's illiterate, mute, criminal, and insolent offspring.