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Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back poster
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Strong
MASTER SCORE 64.6 / 100
2000·Biography / Drama / Music·1h 27m

MEAT LOAF: TO HELL AND BACK

"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, in an impossible task to prove himself to the world and to himself. A chance audition for a musical leads him to join forces with composer Jim Steinman, and together the two make music history with the operatic rock album "Bat Out of Hell." But the demons that drive Meat Loaf aren't assuaged by success, and eventually he must come to terms with them.

Above the Line
Jim McBride·DirectorRon McGee·WriterDenis Lenoir·Director of PhotographyHummie Mann·Original Music ComposerMilton Moses Ginsberg·Editor
Cast
W. Earl Brown·Meat LoafDedee Pfeiffer·LeslieZachary Throne·Jim SteinmanTim Kelleher·David SonenbergTom Wood·Kevin FrearsLisa Jane Persky·Wilma AdayKim Robillard·Wes AdayBrooke Averi·Little PearlGretchen Storms·Young PearlMarissa Leigh·Amanda
Full Crew
(8 credits)
Directing· 1
Jim McBride·Director
Writing· 1
Ron McGee·Writer
Camera· 1
Denis Lenoir·Director of Photography
Editing· 1
Milton Moses Ginsberg·Editor
Sound & Music· 1
Hummie Mann·Original Music Composer
Art & Design· 1
Toby Corbett·Production Design
Production· 2
David Bloch·CastingApril Webster·Casting
By the Numbers
64.6
OF 100
Master Score
6.5
OF 10
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Worldwide Gross
0
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