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".
Acting
Grodin's slow-burn breakdown is masterful discomfort.
Direction
Brooks predicting 40 years of reality manipulation.
Writing
The 'real' vs. 'REAL real' debate still stings.
Director
Albert Brooks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brooks wrote this after watching 'An American Family' (1973), the PBS series that invented reality TV and destroyed the Loud family in real time.
The Yeager kids were non-actors Brooks found in Phoenix; their genuine confusion at the 'documentary' process bleeds into the final cut.
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