Our Lives (1985 film)

Our Lives is a 1985 American alternate universe science fiction drama film written by and  and directed by Bill the Genius and Joanna Cipher, depicting a parallel universe where animation and video games do not exist. The film focuses on the lives of the Stevens family, a blended and dysfunctional family from the city of Los Angeles, and the secret life of their father, George, who is actually a dimension-travelling agent sent on a mission to create the existence of animation, video games and holidays with the help of a time machine while also trying to mend his relationship with his family.

Produced by in association with, the film was released in the United States by  on April 27, 1985. While the film was critically panned on its initial release, it went on to become a box-office success, earning $325.6 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million. It has the distinction of being the first film released by Disney to receive an R rating by the. It was the highest-grossing film from until it was surpassed by  in 1988.

In 2016, Our Lives was selected for the United States by the  as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot
The film's main setting is a parallel universe where animation (or cartoons) and video games do not exist, neither do holidays and celebrations such as, , , , , , , and.

The movie begins with George Stevens being awoken from stasis by the mysterious Government Man, who reveals that the non-existence of cartoons, video games and holidays attracted the attention of a multidimensional empire called the Terror Intelligence Agency, which will conquer Earth in ten hours unless George, with the help of a time machine and disguise kit given by the Government Man, manages to go back in time in the universe and invent such concepts under certain aliases. The Government Man then inserts Stevens into an airplane arriving at Los Angeles, reuniting with his family, consisting of his wife Elizabeth, his son Robert and his daughter Jenny. Robert and Jenny are study math and take auto shop classes respectively, but constantly tend to get bored overtime because of the non-existence of cartoons and holidays, which causes a strain in the family because of George and Elizabeth's lack of productivity skills like making treehouses.

Cast

 * as George Stevens
 * as Elizabeth Stevens
 * Andy Corne as Robert Stevens
 * Colleen Ann Villard as Jennifer "Jenny" Stevens
 * as the Government Man