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Comedy

Real Life(1979)

6.5(93)
1h 39m
1979-03-02

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".

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Keywords

dysfunctional family
mockumentary
filmmaking
found footage
documentary filmmaking
narcissist
psychological disintegration
family portrait
film director
film crew
social experiment
dull suburb
faux reality show

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