Real Life (1979)
"An American Comedy"
ThumbScore
👍 74%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 81%
(RT: 81%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Lisa Urette as Lisa Yeager
Robert Stirrat as Eric Yeager
Matthew Tobin as Dr. Howard Hill
Mort Lindsey as Mort Lindsey
Is Real Life good?
Most people think so. 74% audience score, estimated from 103 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 81%.
Overview
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". Wikipedia ↗
