Real Life
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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".
Real Life is a film that explores themes of dysfunctional family, mockumentary, filmmaking. It also touches on documentary filmmaking and narcissist and psychological disintegration.
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Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain, Lisa Urette, Robert Stirrat, Dick Haymes, Matthew Tobin, J.A. Preston, Mort Lindsey, Joseph Schaffler
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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".
Real Life is a film that explores themes of dysfunctional family, mockumentary, filmmaking. It also touches on documentary filmmaking and narcissist and psychological disintegration.
Director
Albert Brooks
Cast
Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain, Lisa Urette, Robert Stirrat, Dick Haymes, Matthew Tobin, J.A. Preston, Mort Lindsey, Joseph Schaffler
dysfunctional family · mockumentary · filmmaking · documentary filmmaking · narcissist · psychological disintegration · family portrait · film director · film crew · social experiment
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