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Brooks directed his first feature film, Real Life, in 1979.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

It has also been viewed as foretelling the future emergence of reality television.

Brooks also made a cameo appearance in the film Private Benjamin ( 1980 ), starring Goldie Hawn.