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Life is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ted Demme released in USA on 16 april 1999 with Martin Lawrence

Life (1999)

Life
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Released in USA 16 april 1999
Length 1h48
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Action,    Crime
Rating67% 3.3985153.3985153.3985153.3985153.398515

Life is a 1999 American comedy-drama film written by Robert Ramsey & Matthew Stone and directed by Ted Demme. The film stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. The supporting cast includes Obba Babatundé, Bernie Mac, Anthony Anderson, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Bokeem Woodbine, Guy Torry and Barry Shabaka Henley. The film's format is a story being told by an elderly inmate about two of his friends, who are both wrongly convicted of murder and given a life sentence in prison. The film was the last R rated role to date for Eddie Murphy who has stuck mainly to family friendly films for the past 16 years of his career.

Synopsis

Elderly inmate, Willie Long (Obba Babatundé) attends the burial of two friends who recently perished in an infirmary fire in a Mississippi prison. He begins telling the two young inmates digging the graves (Heavy D and Bönz Malone) his friends' life story.

Actors

Martin Lawrence

(Claude Banks)Eddie Murphy

(Rayford Gibson)Ned Beatty

(Dexter Wilkins)Nick Cassavetes

(Sergeant Dillard)Obba Babatundé

(Willie Long)
And :
Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.
Clarence Williams III
Anthony Anderson
Bokeem Woodbine
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