The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Never judge a man by his cover.
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 10, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: HBO Archives

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,877
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. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Dec 4, 2016
... 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. Full Review
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 22, 2018
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." Full Review
Nick's Flick Picks
Jan 14, 2012
A very good biographical picture of a human being who made people laugh, but could never find the humor in his own life. Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Apr 29, 2009
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. Full Review
Boston Phoenix
Jul 2, 2018
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
Jun 1, 2004
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
Jun 1, 2004

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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  • Sales Rank: 92,723
  • UPC: 883316491232
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