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Life
Directed by
Ted Demme
R
1999
1h 48m
Comedy
,
Crime
,
and more
6.8
53%
77%
6.7
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In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century.
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Life Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Ribald, funny and sometimes sweet, and well acted by Murphy, Lawrence and a strong supporting cast.
New York Post
Rod Dreher
This prison dramedy's muddled, episodic script seems to have gone on a hunger strike for humor!
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Life desperately wants to let Murphy and Lawrence be actors, but it can't imagine them as anything more than rowdy showmen.
Film.com
Sean P. Means
Life plays more like This Is Your Life for Eddie Murphy, cobbling together elements from his earlier, funnier movies.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sue Pierman
The writers and Demme should have smoothed out the timeline and sacrificed a few zingers in order to make a deeper, better movie about hardship and friendship in prison.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
An unexpectedly moving surprise!
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
We have been treated to something we normally would never get in a prison comedy like this: a little delicacy with the humor.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Funny, sad, conventional, unpredictable -- just like the real thing!
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Lawrence and Murphy make an entertaining team!
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
Lawrence's best movie and one of Murphy's best!
Kalamazoo Gazette
James Sanford
has no real sense of period style, throwing in scores of distracting anachronisms in both attitudes and dialogue...
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Lively, packed with colorful characters and spiked with outbursts of outrageous banter!
Newsday
John Anderson
A very funny/surprisingly poignant story!
Nitrate Online
Elias Savada
If you're looking for comedy nutrition here, you'll find yourself in stand-up anorexic hell.
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The bickering of the two leads is funny in a loose, maybe improvisational way.
E! Online
A lot of laughs!
Film Journal International
Chris Grunden
Screenwriters Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone deserve hard time for the tired, plodding shtick they concoct once the duo end up in prison stripes.
Citysearch
Matt Diehl
A maudlin, unfunny mess!
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