Real Life (Criterion Collection)

Cast View all

	Dick Haynes	Councilman Edmund Harris
	Albert Brooks	Albert Brooks
	Matthew Tobin	Dr. Howard Hill
	J.A. Preston	Dr. Ted Cleary
	Mort Lindsey	Mort Lindsey
	Joseph Schaffler	Paul Lowell - Realtor
	Phyllis Quinn	Donna Stanley - Gift Shop Owner
	James Ritz	Jack from Cincinnati
	Clifford Einstein	Role Reversal Family Father
	Harold Einstein	Role Reversal Family Son
	Mandy Einstein	Role Reversal Family Mother
	Karen Einstein	Role Reversal Family Daughter
	James L. Brooks	Driving Evaluator
	Zeke Manners	Driver in Evaluation
	Charles Grodin	Warren Yeager DVM
	Frances Lee McCain	Jeanette Yeager
	Lisa Urette	Lisa Yeager
	Robert Stirrat	Eric Yeager
	Dudley DeZonia	Andrew Felton - Alternate Family Father
	Barbara DeZonia	Felton Family Member
	Carolyn Silas	Felton Family Member
	Adam Grant	Felton Family Member
	Belle Richter	Jeanette's Mother
	Jerry Jensen	Jeanette's Father
	Michele Grace	Dr. Rennert's Nurse

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Director	Albert Brooks
Writer	Monica Mcgowan Johnson, Harry Shearer, Albert Brooks
Producer	Norman Epstein, Jonathan Kovler, Penelope Spheeris
Musician	Mort Lindsey
Photography	Eric Saarinen

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Christmas 2024 gift from Beth

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.

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

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