What is Real Life / Smile about?

Name: Real Life / Smile
Genre: Comedy

REAL LIFE, 1979, Paramount, 99 min. Dir. Albert Brooks. Brooks is at his best as the hilariously self-serving filmmaker who invades Phoenix suburban everyman Charles Grodin’s “normal” family household to chronicle their everyday lives. Amazingly enough, there were some critics who thought the film was for real on its initial release and not just a spot-on satire of reality television. SMILE, 1975, MGM Repertory, 117 min. Director Michael Ritchie’s savage, Norman Rockwell-in-rehab comedy stars Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd and Geoffrey Lewis as a group of civic boosters desperately trying to stage a teenage beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California. Annette O’Toole and Melanie Griffith are among the gorgeous, devious and very unlady-like contestants, in this wickedly funny snapshot of the underbelly of mid-70s America.

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What is Real Life / Smile about?: REAL LIFE, 1979, Paramount, 99 min. Dir. Albert Brooks. Brooks is at his best as the hilariously self-serving filmmaker who invades Phoenix suburban everyman Charles Grodin’s “normal” family household to chronicle their everyday lives. Amazingly enough, there were some critics who thought the film was for real on its initial release and not just a spot-on satire of reality television.

SMILE, 1975, MGM Repertory, 117 min. Director Michael Ritchie’s savage, Norman Rockwell-in-rehab comedy stars Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd and Geoffrey Lewis as a group of civic boosters desperately trying to stage a teenage beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California. Annette O’Toole and Melanie Griffith are among the gorgeous, devious and very unlady-like contestants, in this wickedly funny snapshot of the underbelly of mid-70s America.