Real Life
Decades before reality television reigned supreme, there was Albert Brooks’s debut feature, Real Life, a brilliantly deadpan, stylistically innovative satire about the perils and pitfalls of trying to capture the truth on film. The writer-director plays “Albert Brooks,” a narcissistic Hollywood filmmaker who plans to spend the year in Phoenix embedded with Warren and Jeanette Yeager (Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain) and their two children, deploying an arsenal of cutting-edge equipment (including the over-the-head Ettinauer 226XL camera) to capture an American family’s ordinary day-to-day. Chronicling the project’s disastrous fallout, as the meddlesome Albert can’t help getting too close to his subjects, this pioneering mockumentary is more relevant than ever amid today’s media landscape.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Albert Brooks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New interview with Brooks
- New interview with actor Frances Lee McCain
- 3D trailer directed by Brooks
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic A. S. Hamrah
New cover based on an original theatrical poster
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Albert Brooks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New interview with Brooks
- New interview with actor Frances Lee McCain
- 3D trailer directed by Brooks
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic A. S. Hamrah
New cover based on an original theatrical poster
Cast
- Albert Brooks
- Albert Brooks
- Charles Grodin
- Warren Yeager
- Frances Lee McCain
- Jeanette Yeager
- Lisa Urette
- Lisa Yeager
- Robert Stirrat
- Eric Yeager
- Matthew Tobin
- Dr. Howard Hill
- J. A. Preston
- Dr. Ted Cleary
- David Spielberg
- Dr. Jeremy Nolan
- Julie Payne
- Dr. Anne Kramer
- Johnny Haymer
- Dr. Maxwell Rennert
- Norman Bartold
- Dr. Isaac Steven Hayward
- Harry Shearer
- Pete the cameraman
- Charles H. Reid
- Assistant surgeon
- Nudie Cohn
- Horse owner
- Jennings Lang
- Martin Brand
- Dick Haynes
- Councilman Harris
- Mort Lindsey
- Mort Lindsey
- Clifford Einstein
- Role reversal family
- Harold Einstein
- Mandy Einstein
- Karen Einstein
- Leo McElroy
- Jim Sanders, Channel 5
- James L. Brooks
- Driving evaluator
Credits
- Director
- Albert Brooks
- Produced by
- Penelope Spheeris
- Written by
- Albert Brooks
- Written by
- Monica Johnson
- Written by
- Harry Shearer
- Executive producer
- Norman Epstein
- Executive producer
- Jonathan Kovler
- Director of photography
- Eric Saarinen
- Editor
- David Finfer
- Music
- Mort Lindsey
- Art direction
- Linda Spheeris
- Art direction
- Linda Marder
- Sound
- Michael Moore
- Makeup
- Kathryn Logan
- Script supervisor
- Betty Goldberg
- Computer graphics
- Mark Jaffe
- Additional photography
- Frederick Elmes
- Special effects
- Dick Albain
- Special props
- John Crawford
Trailer for Real Life
