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A Liar's Autobiography (2012)
Also Known As: A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Opened: 11/02/2012 Limited
| Limited | 11/02/2012 | |
| Angelika/NYC | 11/09/2012 - 11/15/2012 | 7 days |
| DVD | 02/12/2013 |
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Genre: British Animated Comedy
Rated: R for strong and crude sexual content including graphic animated sequences, language and some violent images.
Adapted from Graham Chapman's A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, the film presents Graham's version of his own life, from childhood, through the Python years, to coming to terms with his sexuality and dealing with his alcoholism - it's a barrel of laughs, and lies !
Oh, and by the way, it's animated, and it's in 3D.
Synopsis
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.
EPIX and Brainstorm Media present, in association with Trinity, A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY - THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON'S GRAHAM CHAPMAN.
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