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". However, instead of remaining unobtrusive and letting the family be themselves, he can't keep himself from trying to control every facet of their lives "for the good of the show".... (Full plot summary below)
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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". However, instead of remaining unobtrusive and letting the family be themselves, he can't keep himself from trying to control every facet of their lives "for the good of the show".
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThough amusing in spots, it goes too far with its one-note joke until it becomes abrasive. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe ending of Real Life is the most uproarious of a good many inspired moments. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldAlbert Brooks may be the Woody Allen of the 1980s. His extraordinary first feature, Real Life, demonstrates a potential genius for movie comedy and is animated by a peculiarly fertile and subtle imagination. |
| Pacific Sun (San Rafael, CA)Richard von BusackReal Life is a jewel of American comedy and one of the first mockumentaries ever made. |
| Washington PostJudith MartinIt’s astonishing, and a bit sad really, how prescient Real Life was in retrospect. In 1979, Albert Brooks had already predicted and skewered the contrived inauthenticity of reality television with this biting mockumentary, yet we’ve gone ahead and given over much of our entertainment hours to the format anyway. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenIt's astonishing, and a bit sad really, how prescient Real Life is. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottAn 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. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullBrooks messes with the genre from the start, spouting pseudoscience about how the filmmakers found their test subjects (led by a spot-on Charles Grodin). |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceThe first of Brooks' analytical comedies is his funniest and most rigorous |
| User ReviewMichelle HThis might be the funniest movie ever made. |
