Real Life

Real Life1979

PG Film · Comedy · 99 min · Mar 2, 1979
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4 platform(s) · 6 ratings 4,836 votes
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An American 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".

Albert Brooks
Writer, Director

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Staff (Not Credited) · TV Guide Magazine 75.00/100.00

Real Life delivers a pointed critique of the influence of media on our lives; it is also one of the funniest looks at filmmaking ever put on screen.

Janet Maslin · The New York Times 80.00/100.00

The ending of Real Life is the most uproarious of a good many inspired moments.

Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times 25.00/100.00

An idea is not enough for a movie. Characters have to be developed, comic situations have to be set up before they can pay off and the story should have a conclusion instead of a dead stop. Real Life fails in all of those areas -- fails so miserably that it lets its audiences down.