Real Life PG
An American comedy
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 13, 2001
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Albert Brooks | |
Performer: | Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain, J.A. Preston, Matthew Tobin, James L. Brooks, David Spielberg, Adam Grant & Thelma Leeds | |
Directed by | Albert Brooks & Penelope Spheeris | |
Edited by | David Finfer | |
Screenwriting by | Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson & Harry Shearer | |
Composition by | Mort Lindsey | |
Cinematography by | Eric Saarinen | |
Art Direction by | Linda Spheeris & Linda Marder |
Entertainment Reviews:
While the fictitious Albert Brooks takes us cheerfully into his confidence, the Albert Brooks behind the camera sees through him with hilarious clarity.
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Washington Post
...Drily funny....It works remarkably well...
New York Times
Albert Brooks's first and funniest feature.
Village Voice
Rating: C --
Though amusing in spots, it goes too far with its one-note joke until it becomes abrasive.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The first of Brooks' analytical comedies is his funniest and most rigorous
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CinePassion
Real Life is a jewel of American comedy and one of the first mockumentaries ever made.
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Pacific Sun (San Rafael, CA)
Rating: B --
Albert Brooks is so deft at showing how filmmaking distorts the very reality it aims to record honestly that it's hard to watch family documentaries anymore without thinking about Real Life.
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Product Description:
Satirist Albert Brooks makes his directorial debut in this hilarious mockumentary that focuses on the day-to-day life of a "typical" American family. Brooks plays himself, a producer who pitches a movie concept about filming a real American family for one year and editing it into a movie. Backed up by a team of psychologists and a respected institute dealing with human behavior, he promises not to let the cameras interfere in any way in their lives. But the problems begin on day one, and Brooks desperately tries to hold his project together. Obsessed with presenting what's "real," he is soon convinced that real life isn't exciting enough for film. Brooks mercilessly parodies the Hollywood persona in this sharp satire of the entertainment industry that presages such later films as EDTV and THE TRUMAN SHOW as well as the television shows THE REAL WORLD, BIG BROTHER, and SURVIVOR.
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