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Life
Directed by
Ted Demme
1999
1h 48m
R
Comedy
,
Crime
,
Drama
6.8
52%
77%
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In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century.
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Cast of Life
Eddie Murphy
Rayford Gibson
Martin Lawrence
Claude Banks
Obba Babatundé
Willie Long
Nick Cassavetes
Sergeant Dillard
Bernie Mac
Jangle Leg
Michael Taliferro
Goldmouth
Anthony Anderson
Cookie
Barry Shabaka Henley
Pokerface
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Biscuit
Bokeem Woodbine
Can't Get Right
Lisa Nicole Carson
Sylvia
Sanaa Lathan
Daisy
Brooks Almy
Billy's Mama
Hal Havins
Billy
Poppy Montgomery
Older Mae Rose Abernathy
Venus DeMilo Thomas
Juke Joint Waitress
Ned Beatty
Dexter Wilkins
Noah Emmerich
Stan Blocker
Heavy D
Jake
Ned Vaughn
Young Sheriff Pike
R. Lee Ermey
Older Sheriff Pike
Clarence Williams III
Winston Hancock
Rick James
Spanky Johnson
O'Neal Compton
Superintendant Abernathy
Walter K. Jordan
Slim
Keith Burke
Shady Cardplayer
Sean Lampkin
Trustee at Line
Brent Jennings
Hoppin' Bob
Life Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Ribald, funny and sometimes sweet, and well acted by Murphy, Lawrence and a strong supporting cast.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
We have been treated to something we normally would never get in a prison comedy like this: a little delicacy with the humor.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Funny, sad, conventional, unpredictable -- just like the real thing!
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Life desperately wants to let Murphy and Lawrence be actors, but it can't imagine them as anything more than rowdy showmen.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Lawrence and Murphy make an entertaining team!
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sue Pierman
The writers and Demme should have smoothed out the timeline and sacrificed a few zingers in order to make a deeper, better movie about hardship and friendship in prison.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Lively, packed with colorful characters and spiked with outbursts of outrageous banter!
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JoBlo
An unimaginative plot and a cast of unbelievably wholesome jailbirds.
Newsday
John Anderson
A very funny/surprisingly poignant story!
New York Post
Rod Dreher
This prison dramedy's muddled, episodic script seems to have gone on a hunger strike for humor!
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Ambitious, enjoyable.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
What's most effective about Life is the skillful way in which it blends poignancy into its broad tale.
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
An unexpectedly moving surprise!
Film.com
Sean P. Means
Life plays more like This Is Your Life for Eddie Murphy, cobbling together elements from his earlier, funnier movies.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
Lawrence's best movie and one of Murphy's best!
Kalamazoo Gazette
James Sanford
has no real sense of period style, throwing in scores of distracting anachronisms in both attitudes and dialogue...
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