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
Rating: 3/5 --
Brooks messes with the genre from the start, spouting pseudoscience about how the filmmakers found their test subjects (led by a spot-on Charles Grodin).
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 1/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/4 --
It's astonishing, and a bit sad really, how prescient Real Life is.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 4/5 --
Mock-umentary predates reality shows, still funny.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 3/5 --
Albert Brooks just before he became great.
Greenwich Village Gazette
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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EmanuelLevy.Com
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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- UPC: 097360128741
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