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Life

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Released: 1999-10-19

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Life DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac, Miguel A. Nuñez, Clarence Williams III, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael "Bear" Taliferro, Barry "Shabaka" Henley, Brent Jennings, Guy Torry, Lisa Nicole Carson, O'Neal Compton, Poppy Montgomery, Ned Vaughn, R. Lee Ermey, Nick Cassavetes, Anthony Anderson, Noah Emmerich, Rick James

Director(s): Ted Demme

Features:
Spotlight on location
Feature commentary with director Ted Demme
Outtakes; Director's edits
Rock Land/Interscope soundtrack presentation with K-Ci and Jo Jo and Maxwell music videos
Universal showcase
Production notes
Cast and filmmakers
Theatrical trailer
DVD-ROM features

Life DVD Details

Video:
Theatre Wide-Screen
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital Surround
Language:
English
French
Subtitles:
English

Running Time: 109
Genre: Comedies
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 025192055928
Product Code: MHV61020559DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1999
Studio: Universal Studios

Life DVD Summary Comedians Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a story that wouldn't appear to have many immediate humorous possibilities -- two men serving life sentences in prison for a crime they did not commit.

Life opens in Harlem in 1932, where Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) is a small-time con man in debt to Spanky, a gangster (Rick James).

Ray spots would-be bank teller Claude Banks (Martin Lawrence) at a gambling spot and, figuring him for an easy mark, lifts his wallet -- only to discover Claude is broke.

Ray and Claude's mutual need to raise some cash brings them together when Spanky offers them a job bringing back a load of moonshine from bootleggers in the deep south.

However, things don't go well for Ray and Claude, and they're arrested by a sheriff in Mississippi who recently killed a man and needs someone on whom he can hang the charge.

Since Ray and Claude are black, from out of town and have been caught red-handed with a load of illegal liquor, the sheriff figures they're easy pickings and frames them for the murder.

Soon the two men are inmates in a Southern work camp, where they spend the next 55 years learning to get along with the other inmates, avoiding the wrath of the guards, seeing younger prisoners come and go and never losing hope that someday, somehow, their innocence will be proven and they'll be released.

Life is the second screen pairing for Murphy and Lawrence, who also shared screen time in 1992's Boomerang, and was scripted by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone from an original idea by Murphy.

The supporting cast includes Ned Beatty, Clarence Williams III, Bernie Mac, Nick Cassavetes and R.

Lee Ermey.