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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 ...
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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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- 1979-03-23
A great idea. But the movie that Albert Brooks has made from it, alas, gets most of its laughs in the first 10 minutes, slides into a long middle stretch of repetitive situations and ends on a note of embarrassing hysteria. An idea is not enough for a movie. Characters have to be developed, comic situations have to be set up before they can pay ...
Mar 26, 2019 · This was Albert Brooks’ first film, a faux documentary. Released in March 1979, Real Life preceded and influenced This Is Spinal Tap and The Office and anticipated the monstrosity of reality TV ...
Any Albert Brooks fan who has not seen his first glorious feature is truly missing out. As anyone can attest, Brooks has the rare gift of turning ordinary human moments into riotously funny scenes, and this film is full of such moments, plus much more subversive material, like the way Grodin's character repeatedly comes perilously close to committing a felony against his family.
Jan 7, 2009 · Albert Brooks' natural skepticism hits the ground running in Real Life (1979). It's right there in the title, before we even see the first frame of his brilliantly nervy debut film, a mockumentary about a documentary, An American Family, the landmark 1973 PBS chronicle of the Bill Loud family of Santa Barbara, famously enabled to demolish itself by allowing TV cameras into their lives.
Mar 2, 1979 · ALBERT BROOKS explains, at the beginning of his drily funny first film, "Real Life," that his idea was to "depict day-to-day living in contemporary America and at the same time hold a motion ...
