Search results
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 one full year. Charles Grodin co-stars as the family's patriarch who allows cameras in his Arizona home.
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.
- (3.8K)
- Comedy
- Albert Brooks
- 1979-03-23
The film stars Brooks -- much too much of Brooks -- as a documentary filmmaker who's gone to Phoenix to spend a year filming the life of a typical American family. The father is a veterinarian, the mother is neurotic, the kids are wholesome and cute.
Nov 6, 2016 · In 1971, Esquire featured Brooks’ humor piece, Albert Brooks’ Famous School for Comedians, which was predictive of comedy schools like The Groundlings and the Upright Citizens Brigade — two organizations that would soon emerge and spread the notion that comedy can be taught.
Jan 7, 2009 · Real Life (1979) -- (Movie Trailer) Writer, director and star Albert Brooks in the semi-legendary trailer for his mock documentary Real Life, 1979, which was not shot in 3-D, featuring paddle-ball champ Randy Brown.
- Albert Brooks
- Thelma Bernstein
Real Life. Decades before reality television reigned supreme, there was Albert Brooks’s debut feature, Real Life, a brilliantly deadpan, stylistically innovative satire about the perils and pitfalls of trying to capture the truth on film.
Real Life Albert Brooks. Brooks's big-screen debut in 1979, this hilarious mockumentary is a spoof of ‘An American Family’, generally considered the first reality series on American...
