
Release Date:
November 2, 2012 (limited)
Studio:
Trinity, Brainstorm Media
Director:
Bill Jones, Ben Timlett, Jeff Simpson
Screenwriter:
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Starring:
Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
Genre:
Animation, Biography, Comedy
MPAA Rating:
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Plot Summary:
Graham Chapman, probably best remembered as 'the dead one from Monty Python', writes and stars in the animated movie of his own life story, "A Liar's Autobiography." Although Chapman selfishly dropped dead in 1989, he had taken the trouble to record himself reading his book, A Liar's Autobiography -- and those recordings have now ingeniously been used to provide Chapman's voice for the 3D animated feature of the same name. Fellow Pythons John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam also turn up, playing themselves and other characters, along with a few surprise guests.
Not a documentary, not a Monty Python film, "A Liar's Autobiography" is Chapman's own take on his bizarre life and his search for self-knowledge, bringing Chapman back to life in an ingenious tour de force of animation, told through 17 different animation styles from 14 different animators.
Incredible, yes. Surreal, certainly. True? Who knows? At his memorial service, John Cleese called Chapman "a freeloading bastard". Now, as the film re-unites Chapman with Cleese, Jones, Palin, and Gilliam for the first time in 23 years, he is set to earn a new title -- the most prolific corpse since Elvis.
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