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Mood:
- HumorousBittersweet
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Plot:
- BuddiesCriminal HeroesCrimesDishonestyPartnersSocietyFriendsWitnessing a Crime more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDramaCrime
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century30s90s
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Place:
- MississippiNew YorkUSA
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Life, 1999
English
USA
Profile of Life
Life can be described as humorous and bittersweet. The plot revolves around partners, criminal heroes, and buddies. The main genres are drama, comedy, and crime. In approach, Life is realistic. It is located in Mississippi and New York. It takes place in the 1930s and in the 1990s.
Summary of Life
Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a prison comedy underlined by serious social commentary. Rayford Gibson (Murphy), an opportunistic con man, and Claude Banks (Lawrence), an ambitious bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in 1930s Harlem. In order to pay off their debts to a local crime lord, the mismatched pair travel into the Deep South on a moonshine delivery only to be framed for murder by a racist Southern cop. Sentenced to life in a Mississippi state prison, the bickering duo spend the next 60 years trading barbs and planning their escape, at the same time forming an unlikely but touching friendship.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 13 April 1999 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
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as Rayford Gibson
as Claude Banks
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
Variety
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- by: Todd McCarthy
