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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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- Penelope Spheeris
Jul 2, 2015 · And perhaps ironically, as Spheeris had brought Fox into the film industry to address some of Fox’s issues, Fox then helped her mother re-examine the Decline films to help Spheeris overcome her...
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.)
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Jun 30, 2015 · Fox, too, is working on a documentary inspired by painful family history—Spheeris’ dad, a carnie, was murdered while protecting a black man in the South—but the racially-charged subject ...
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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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Feb 6, 2017 · Spheeris and her fellow female (and male) directors got paid “big time” in the 90s—“you don’t get $2 million to direct a movie anymore,” she says—but thinking back, she also realizes ...
Jun 19, 2015 · Spheeris: I did this movie with the Weinsteins called Senseless, with Marlon Wayans, who I love, and David Spade. Then the Weinsteins decided they wanted to rewrite the ending and have me reshoot ...
