The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Never judge a man by his cover.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 10, 2012
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: HBO Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron & Stanley Tucci | |
Performer: | John Lithgow, Emily Watson, Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes & Heidi Klum | |
Directed by | Stephen Hopkins | |
Edited by | John Smith | |
Screenwriting by | Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely | |
Composition by | Richard Hartley | |
Cinematography by | Peter Levy | |
Subject: | Peter Sellers | |
Produced by | Simon Bosanquet |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 7/10 --
It has all of the ingredients to be a cunning interrogation of the form of a biopic, [or] a listless, unenjoyably prescriptive embodiment of the same, and it is in the end neither.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
... as exhausting as it obviously is to play or be Pagliacci, by now it is just tiresome to sit still for yet another sad clown without a scintilla of surprise or insight.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: C+ --
"There was no real Peter Sellers"... As a theme, it smells of the tired cop-out, somewhere in the same clubhouse of desiccated phrases as "I love you, but I'm not in love with you" and "In a crazy world, only the mad people are sane."
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Nick's Flick Picks
A very good biographical picture of a human being who made people laugh, but could never find the humor in his own life.
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Cinema Crazed
The film makes you care so little for its subject that you might be compelled to turn it off were it not for Rush's valiant mimicry.
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Boston Phoenix
Sustains interest most of the way, but combination of an unsympathetic central figure and patchy recreation of events involving numerous famous people makes for an ambitiously told life story that finally doesn't cut it.
Variety
While In Competition entry The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a wonderfully entertaining film, the one thing that's missing is Sellers' singular ability to be hilarious.
Hollywood Reporter
Description by OLDIES.com:
Despite his Hollywood success, Peter Sellers' comic virtuosity belied a troubled private life plagued by self-loathing, insecurity and abusive behavior. The film peers behind the many faces of Peter Sellers to reveal how this comic genius teetered on the edge of madness.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 92,723
- UPC: 883316491232
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