Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back Movie Review 2000

Saga of rock singer Meat Loaf (Brown), born Marvin Lee Aday, from his dsyfunctional family life to his early musical start and his first success in the '70s with the Top 10 hits from "Bat Out of Hell." Of course, there's also the inevitable decline and resurrection. Brown's a Meat Loaf lookalike and Pfeiffer is good as his loyal wife, Leslie, but this is a very familiar story.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Biopics: Musicians, Period Piece: 1970s, Price of Fame, Rock Flicks

Screenplay

Ron McGee

Cast

W. Earl Brown, Dedee Pfeiffer, Zachary Throne, Jesse Lenat, Lisa Jane Persky

Cinematography

Denis Lenoir

Director

Jim McBride

Music

Hummie Mann