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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.
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Albert Brooks stars as a documentary filmmaker who invades the life of a typical American family for a year. Ebert criticizes the film's lack of characters, comedy and ending, and calls Brooks' performance self-indulgent and embarrassing.
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.
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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...
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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.
A film crew sets out to record a year in the life of an average family, but things quickly start going wrong. A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
