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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Geoffrey Rush turns in a spectacular performance as legendary comedian Peter Sellers in this acclaimed biopic. The film tracks Sellers' life through a childhood spent with an overbearing mother (Miriam Margolyes); his marriage to long-suffering first wife Anne (Emily Watson); his delusion that his glamourous co-star Sophia Loren (Sonia Aquino) is in love with him; his tumultuous relationship with actress Britt Ekland (Charlize Theron); and his prickly but immensely rewarding collaborations with filmmakers Blake Edwards (John Lithgow) and Stanley Kubrick (Stanley Tucci). Sellers famously once said that without a role to play he had no character of his own and the film paints a portrait of a man whose brilliance in front of the camera masked devastating insecurity and self-doubt. Co-starring Stephen Fry, Peter Vaughan.

Year: 2004
Genre: True Stories, Biography
Country: UK, USA
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci, Emily Watson
Duration: 126 Minutes
Rating: M - Contains sex scenes, offensive language and drug use
6.9/10
Location in store: Comedy

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