Art: The story in a nut shell: Arthur Mann works at a carpet making factory and has an average 'nice' family: His wife, Mandy Mann owns a used romance bookstore and is an avid fan of these stories (which sparks their adventurous love life), his fourteen year old son AJ's passion for skateboards is yielding to dreams of a driver's license, his twelve year old daughter Joy is a softball playing sports fan and his adorable six year old boy Mikey, crippled in one leg and extremely gifted, is absolutely certain his happiness is contingent upon getting a dog, something his sister's allergies prohibit. Their Granny is an old eighty woman, with numerous health complaints, uncertain hearing, and a fixation of death.

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The Manns are going about a happy middle class existence when something extraordinary happens: One night as they gather around the TV watching funny home videos Americas Funniest Home Videos, Arthur imagines he could make a funny video, land a spot on the TV show and win the big prize. So begins his journey to discover just what is funny and then, to capture this on film.

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Arthur spares no family or co--worker from the ravages of his growing obsession; it is one hilarious adventure after another. Every humor cliché is fully exploited here. Just as Arthur begins looking more and more like Stephen Spielberg, his 'video pieces' become ever more elaborate, complicated and disastrous. Of course Arthur finally makes it on the show, but what happens, like each one of his 'home videos,' is a bone tickling funny surprise.

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The story ends with Arthur and his family heading to Disneyland for a vacation but instead Arthur takes the wrong exit off the freeway. The exit reads: Hollywood, CA, a land populate by so many other folks who suffer from the all consuming ravishes of art. All in all this is a high brow theme done in a low brow landscape.