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Box office. $364,642 [2] Real Life is a 1979 American comedy film starring Albert Brooks (in his directorial debut ), who also co-authored the screenplay. It is a spoof of the 1973 reality television program An American Family and portrays a documentary filmmaker named Albert Brooks who attempts to live with and film a dysfunctional family for ...
Mar 23, 1979 · Real Life: Directed by Albert Brooks. With Dick Haynes, Albert Brooks, Matthew Tobin, J.A. Preston. A film crew sets out to record a year in the life of an average family, but things quickly start going wrong.
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- Comedy
- Albert Brooks
- 1979-03-23
The irony of "Real Life" is that it fails as a satire on a film that fails -- by failing itself. (Footnote, 1996: Nevertheless, moments from this movie have remained in my mind, especially one in which a crazed member of the family sobs out a request to be simply left alone, and Brooks agrees sympathetically, asking if he can film the aloneness.)
Mar 2, 1979 · REAL LIFE, directed by Albert Brooks; written by Mr. Brooks, Monica Johnson and Harry Shearer; director of photography, Eric Saarinen; edited by David Finfer; music by Mort Lindsey; produced by ...
Mar 2, 1979 · Following the lead of the infamous pre-Real World PBS series An American Family (in which a "typical" family was filmed during most of their waking hours and eventually self-destructed on camera), Brooks moves in with the Yeager family of Phoenix, Arizona and chronicles their lives, with the support of a battery of psychiatrists and sociologists.
Real Life, with Brooks starring and directing, was shot in six weeks (in Los Angeles and Phoenix) during November-December 1977. “Directing was second nature to him,” says Penelope Spheeris, the producer (Norman Epstein and Jonathan Kovler served as executive producers). “All actors love direction, they love to be told, and Albert likes ...
Filmmaker Albert Brooks wants to create a documentary that will get to the very heart of what it means to be an American family. To that end, he persuades the Yeagers of Phoenix, Ariz., to let him ...
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