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Life is a 1999 American buddy comedy-drama film directed by Ted Demme. The film stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. It is the second film featuring Murphy and Lawrence together, the first being Boomerang, in 1992.
- $80 million
- April 16, 1999
Apr 16, 1999 · Life: Directed by Ted Demme. With Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatundé, Nick Cassavetes. In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century.
- Ted Demme
- 188
- 2 min
During Prohibition, loudmouth Harlem grifter Ray (Eddie Murphy) and the no-nonsense Claude (Martin Lawrence) team up on a bootlegging mission to Mississippi that could bring them big bucks.
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- Ted Demme
- R
- Eddie Murphy
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Apr 16, 1999 · Life. Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence age more than 50 years in "Life,'' the story of two New Yorkers who spend their adult lives on a Mississippi prison farm because of some very bad luck.
In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century. In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm as a third old-timer relates their story.
In 1930s Harlem, fast talking hustler Ray scams straightlaced Claude into traveling south together to pick up some moonshine and make some quick cash. Instead, they are arrested for a murder actually committed by a corrupt local sheriff, and sentenced to life in prison in Mississippi.
