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Feb 10, 2024 · Defending Your Life, starring Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, puts a comedic twist on the afterlife. ... especially after he caved during the salary negotiation process with his hiring supervisor ...
- Thomas Butt
- Albert Brooks
Nov 10, 2023 · Then came "Defending Your Life," an afterlife comedy which, as Brooks and others put it, is really about how hard it is to live without fear. Brooks, it seems, actually managed to do that, to some degree—although it meant that he never achieved superstar status and remained a "comedian's comedian," appreciated most fervently by other artists ...
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Oct 20, 2020 · In Albert Brooks ’ 1991 comedy, “ Defending Your Life ,” now streaming as part of a Brooks collection on the Criterion Channel, the afterlife is a reflection of your personal hells, neuroses, and angsts. It’s a sendup on organized religion, but it’s also a comment on how we sentence ourselves to be constantly irritated, disappointed ...
But that’s not how Albert Brooks sees it. Twenty-five years ago — and less than a year after Ghost stormed the box office — Brooks wrote, directed, and starred in Defending Your Life, the story of an ad man who buys himself a Bimmer for his 40th birthday, then promptly drives it into a bus. The bulk of the movie happens in a place called ...
Nov 11, 2023 · Albert Brooks: Defending My Life: Directed by Rob Reiner. With Albert Brooks, Judd Apatow, James L. Brooks, Larry David. A documentary about the comedian and filmmaker Albert Brooks which includes interviews from Sharon Stone, Larry David, James L Brooks, Conan O'Brien, Sarah Silverman and Jonah Hill.
- Rob Reiner
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Defending Your Life is a 1991 American romantic comedy-fantasy film about a man who finds himself on trial in the afterlife, where proceedings examine his lifelong fears, to determine whether he'll be (yet again) reincarnated on Earth. Written, directed, and starring Albert Brooks, the film also stars Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, and Buck ...
Apr 5, 1991 · Defending Your Life: Directed by Albert Brooks. With Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant. In an afterlife way-station resembling a major city, the lives of the recently deceased are examined in a court-like setting.
