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Life of Brian (Collector's Edition) (2 Discs) (Widescreen) (Restored / Remastered)
- Starring: Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, John Cleese
- Director: Terry Jones
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On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a messiah -- yet he's always in the shadow of this other guy from Galilee. Brian is witness to the Sermon of the Mount, but his seat is in such a bad location that he can't hear any of it ("Blessed are the cheesemakers?"). Ultimately, he is brought before Pontius Pilate and sentenced to crucifixion, which takes place at that crowded, nonexclusive execution site a few blocks shy of Calvary. Rather than utter the Last Six Words, Brian leads his fellow crucifixees in a spirited rendition of a British music-hall cheer-up song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." The whole Monty Python gang (Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam) are on hand in multiple roles, playing such sacred characters as Stan Called Loretta, Biggus Dickus, Deadly Dirk, Casts the First Stone, and Intensely Dull Youth; also showing up are Goon Show veteran Spike Milligan and a Liverpool musician named George Harrison. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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- Genre: Comedy
- Category: Absurd Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Religious Comedy
- Theme: Mistaken Identities, Rise and Fall Stories
- Release Date: January 29, 2008
- Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Humor, Mild Violence, Questionable for Children
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- Lead Actors: Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin
- Supporting Actors: Terence Bayler, Terry Gilliam, Charles Knode, Graham Chapman, Andrew Maclachlan, Terry Jones, Neil Innes, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Charles McKeown, Carol Cleveland, Bernard McKenna, Michael Palin, Chris Langham, John Young, Susan Jones, Kenneth Colley, Spike Milligan, Gwen Taylor, George Harrison
- Director: Terry Jones
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 33 min
- Subtitle Language: English, Portuguese
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-14-1702
- ASIN: B002FO6OO0
- Catalog #: 11298192
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 6.85 inches length x 5.5 inches width x 0.74 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.43 pound.
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Rebecca Flint MarxBlissfully sacrilegious and completely irreverent, The Life of Brian was banned in a number of places upon its initial release. Any film that featured a messiah telling his followers to "fck off" and a musical interlude staged at a mass crucifixion was bound to seem objectionable to more than a few people. For those familiar with Monty Python's dependably absurd, subversive brand of humor, however, the film was an almost instant classic, the best of the four theatrically released Python excursions. Featuring some of the more memorable Python characters -- Biggus Dickus, Mr. Big Nose, Brian himself -- and scenarios -- a lesson in proper graffiti grammar, surprise alien abduction, and, of course, the crucifixion scene -- it is an intoxicating celebration of the bizarre, outlandish, and unthinkable. Or, simply put, it is Monty Python at their ridiculous best. Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
