Real Life is a 1979 American mockumentary comedy film starring Albert Brooks (in his directorial debut), who also co-authored the screenplay alongside Monica Johnson and Harry Shearer. 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.

Plot

Documentary film producer Albert Brooks leads a project meant to encapsulate the joys, sorrows and intimacy of real life by filming a regular American family, the Yeagers, at all times for a full year using expensive cameras: some installed on walls, and four large helmet-like ones worn by a camera crew that follows Brooks and the family in and out of their neighboring homes.