The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
The Family That Plays Together, Stays Together
1968 • 110 min • Music · Family
Synopsis
The eleven members of the Bower family move to Dakota Territory.
Our family guide
Best from age 6- 100 Reviewers · 1 · 68%
- 61 Audience · 25 · 32%
The 11-member Bower family moves to Dakota Territory in 1888, hoping to homestead and support a presidential candidate. They find challenges and joys as they settle into their new home and continue to make music together.
- Violence & peril
- 1/10
- Language
- 0/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 1/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 1/10
Heads up
- A character smokes a pipe.
- Brief discussions of political differences.
- Some minor peril during travel and settlement.
What it models well
- Family unity and support
- Following your dreams
- Pioneer spirit and perseverance
- The power of music
Talk about it after
- What it was like to homestead in the 19th century.
- How families supported each other in challenging times.
- The importance of music and art in daily life.
- The presidential election process and different political viewpoints.
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Top billed cast
Director: Michael O'Herlihy • Crew: Lowell S. Hawley
Trailers & clips
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band Trailer 1968
Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersClose to being a good watch, but ends up being more boring than entertaining for me. <em>'The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band'</em> has positives and negatives. I mostly enjoyed Walter Brennan and Buddy Ebsen in their roles, while Lesley Ann Warren is likeable too. A young Kurt Russell and future wife Goldie Hawn are in there, also. Some of the songs, meanwhile, are catchy.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.1/10 (25)
- Age rating
- G
- Status
- Released
- IMDb
- tt0063389
