Real Life
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.
Plot
Documentary film producer Albert Brooks (played by comedian Albert Brooks himself) leads a project meant to encapsulate the joys, sorrows and intimacy of real life by filming a regular American family at all times for a full year using expensive cameras: some installed on walls and four large helmet-like ones worn by a small camera crew that follows Brooks and the family in and out of their neighboring homes (a regular film crew is hired by the studio but aren't needed.)
Cast
More details
author | Albert Brooks |
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director | Albert Brooks |
editor | David Finfer |
events | dysfunctional family |
genre | comedy |
keywords | baby dinner date dress eat end film film crew gone with the wind kill lose meet movie star nervous breakdown obsess real life tennis court test worry |
musicBy | Mort Lindsey |
producer | Penelope Spheeris |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
theme | documentary mockumentary |