Real Life PG

An American comedy
Real Life
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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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,258
While the fictitious Albert Brooks takes us cheerfully into his confidence, the Albert Brooks behind the camera sees through him with hilarious clarity. Full Review
Washington Post
Apr 30, 2018
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
Feb 7, 2006
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. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
May 16, 2019
Rating: 3/4 -- It's astonishing, and a bit sad really, how prescient Real Life is. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
Feb 24, 2015
Rating: 4/5 -- Mock-umentary predates reality shows, still funny.
Kansas City Kansan
Dec 28, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- Albert Brooks just before he became great.
Greenwich Village Gazette
Dec 21, 2004
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. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Nov 1, 2006

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
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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