First Family is a 1980 American comedy film written and directed by comedian and actor Buck Henry, and starring Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner, Harvey Korman, Rip Torn, Austin Pendleton, Fred Willard and Richard Benjamin.
As best they can understand it, the ruler of Upper Gorm wants, in exchange, a number of Americans sent to his land so that his country, like the United States, can know what it is like to have an oppressed minority.
Buck Henry had written other successful TV shows and films such as Saturday Night Live and The Graduate, but critics felt he gave the actors largely inferior material in his directorial debut.
Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote that "Henry began with a funny situation but no plot", and that "Any episode of M*A*S*H, Taxi or The Muppet Show has more laughs and pathos per minute than this impeachable farce.
"[3] Vincent Canby of The New York Times offered a more positive review than other critics, praising the cast and opining that some of the sequences were funny.