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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 one full year.
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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.
2 days ago · 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. The writer-director plays “Albert Brooks,” a narcissistic Hollywood filmmaker who plans to spend the year in Phoenix embedded with Warren and Jeanette Yeager ...
TRAILER. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. 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...
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Jennings Lang. Photos & Videos. View All. Film Details. MPAA Rating. Genre. Comedy. Release Date. 1979. Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 39m. Color. Theatrical Aspect Ratio. 1.85 : 1. Filmmakers invade an Arizona home to shoot a documentary about family life.
Summaries. 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".
