Real Life

Albert Brooks

Comedic take on the PBS series on the Loud family show broadcast in 1973. This envisions a movie version...following a family's life for a year on film...in association with a fictional Psych institute.

Some laugh-out-loud scenes in here but Brooks' hyper-vocal character in charge of the filming process got pretty old. Still, nothing presented in this film could have predicted the overwhelming importance of "reality TV" in the current media landscape. But it does nail the absurdity of the concept.

A forgotten milestone.

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