Real Life

Real Life

1979 · 99 min · EN · PG · 6.6 (65 votes)
Dir. Albert Brooks · Starring Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain, Lisa Urette, Robert Stirrat, Matthew Tobin · Music Mort Lindsey

An American comedy.

Comedy

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".

VIBE

This film feels like peering into a stranger's messy life, amplified by the uncomfortable gaze of a filmmaker. It's a cringe-inducing, darkly funny look at family dynamics under a microscope.

awkwardcringeyuncomfortabledarkly funnysteadydocumentary-styleobservationalcringe comedycharacter studyfamily dynamicsvoyeurismfilmmakingauthenticity
dysfunctional familydocumentary filmmaking
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