Real Life (1979)

Directors

Albert Brooks

Cast

Dick Haynes, Albert Brooks, Matthew Tobin, J.A. Preston, Joseph Schaffler, Phyllis Quinn, James Ritz, Clifford Einstein, Harry Einstein, Mandy Einstein, Karen Einstein, James L. Brooks, Zeke Manners, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain, Lisa Urette, Robert Stirrat, Dudley DeZonia, Barbara DeZonia, Carolyn Silas, Adam Grant, Belle Richter, Jerry Jensen, Michele Grace, Thelma Leeds, Johnny Haymer, Nudie, Charles H. Reid, Susan Clark, Ward Rodgers, David Spielberg, Julie Payne, Jennings Lang, Leo McElroy, Carlos Jurado, S.W. Smith, Fred Wolfson, Norman Bartold, Harry Shearer, Mort Lindsey

The story

Documentary film producer Albert Brooks leads a project meant to encapsulate the joys, sorrows and intimacy of real life by filming a regular American family, the Yeagers, for a full year using expensive cameras: some installed on walls, and four large helmet-like ones worn by a camera crew that follows Brooks and the family in and out of their neighboring homes. The Yeagers are sent on vacation and filming starts as they arrive back at the airport, causing immediate nervousness in the family. Doctors Howard Hill and Ted Cleary are there to observe the project's integrity and progress.

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