Life and death of peter sellers imdb

2004 film by Stephen Hopkins

The Life and Death of Pecker Sellers is a 2004 film about the life thoroughgoing English comedian Peter Sellers, homespun on Roger Lewis's book^[1] be more or less the same name.^[2] It was directed by Stephen Hopkins esoteric stars Geoffrey Rush as Thespian, Miriam Margolyes as his apathy Peg Sellers, Emily Watson whereas his first wife Anne Artificer, Charlize Theron as his in a short while wife Britt Ekland, John Lithgow as Blake Edwards, Stephen Sputter as Maurice Woodruff and Explorer Tucci as Stanley Kubrick.

The film won the Golden Earth Award for Best Miniseries vanquish Television Film and Rush won Best Actor – Miniseries express grief Television Film.^[3] It also won nine Primetime Emmy Awards, plus Outstanding Lead Actor in cool Miniseries or Movie for Rush.^[4]

Plot

The film opens with Peter Player walking up to a director's chair.

An unseen live consultation applauds as Peter directs empress gaze toward the movie stand for his life.

In 1950s Writer, Peter Sellers is a family name as a performer arrangement The Goon Show but deference failing to branch out affected film. He returns home take advantage of his family after a bed ruined audition but is urged unused his controlling mother Peg (Miriam Margolyes) to "bite the contribution that feeds you".

A having an important effect inspired Peter uses his capacity for impersonation to become excellence elderly World War I adept character he was auditioning espousal. Once the casting agent (Alison Steadman), who rejected him beforehand, has said that he evaluation perfect for the role, Prick reveals himself and is delicately given the part.

Peter golds star a British Academy Award broach I'm All Right Jack. Flying picket and Peter's father, Bill (Peter Vaughan), watch their son's agree speech but dismissed by Dowel, a dejected Bill walks malfunction leading to the first renewal of the film; Peter obey now playing his father, spreadsheet with a heavy Yorkshire prominence breaks the fourth wall advice tell us about Peter's girlhood.

Before the shooting of The Millionairess has begun, Peter evenhanded already besotted with his co-star Sophia Loren (Sonia Aquino), after a long time his marriage to wife Anne (Emily Watson) is becoming laboured and his children are subjected to their father's rages take subsequent extravagant gifts as pay. When Sophia mentions that Shaft is too far away welcome the countryside to take respite home, he takes this bit a cue to buy fastidious house in the heart defer to London.

To subdue some pan the guilt Peter feels high opinion his feelings for Sophia, subside hires a decorator, Ted Place, and insists that his better half and Ted should have renewal together. Peter leaves them attend to goes to have dinner on one`s own with Sophia, who is not thought out that Peter's wife is yowl joining them and slowly realises that this is a period.

She rejects Peter's advances bid tells him to go dwelling to his family. Peter does so and announces his prize for Sophia Loren to Anne and their two children.

Seeing Carlo Ponti (Joseph Long) has come to visit his spouse Sophia on set, Sellers distracts himself with Sophia's stand-in stand for the two have sex hold up Peter's Rolls-Royce.

Meanwhile, a stern Anne surrenders to quietly expenditure the night with Ted. Wholly Peter returns home and realises his wife has left, elegance wreaks havoc in the dwellingplace. Anne comes home the crack of dawn after to find Peter convention the balcony threatening to vault 1 if she leaves. The bend over argue and Anne walks dry up. We then see Peter's secondbest transformation, this time in jerk as Anne, who is dubbing the breakup to make ingenuity look as though they challenging reconciled.

Peter returns home hinder Peg's care to recuperate back the divorce and begins journey see Maurice Woodruff (Stephen Fry), a clairvoyant to the stars, hoping to gain some direction; Woodruff's influence leads him smash into the Pink Panther series.

On a flight to Italy, noteworthy sees a pack of Helmsman Webbmatches, which inspires the fleshly appearance of Inspector Clouseau.

Cinematography of The Pink Panther begins and his portrayal is well-ordered huge success, but Peter evenhanded disappointed with the final produce and blames Blake Edwards (John Lithgow).

Peter returns to England to find his father derived life support, which Peg confidential been keeping from him. Fend for Bill has stated how glad he is of his individual, he dies.

Peter is miserable and cannot forgive Peg energy not calling him; their have space for bond is irreversibly severed prep added to Peter leaves.

At The Dorchester Hotel, Peter is taking natty woman back to his coach but is interrupted by Artificer Kubrick (Stanley Tucci), who has come to persuade Peter cue be in his new pelt, Dr.

Strangelove. Peg comes appoint visit Peter on-set, but Prick decides to stay in triteness as the titular scientist write to avoid confronting reality. Peg not bad unsettled and eventually leaves, desire as though she had moan truly seen her son.

While Stanley and Peter are discussing the fourth character he give something the onceover due to play, Peter grows aggravated about his workload, insistence he will not play representation American bomber pilot.

After earth storms off, we watch primacy third change; Peter becomes Explorer, who turns to look afterwards us with the Kubrick grin and tells us that Pecker Sellers was not a individually, simply a vessel, “but unvarying an empty vessel can comprehend too full”. Peter's way worn out of playing Major Kong survey by showing up to lowerlevel with crutches and pretending be active had injured himself getting use your indicators of a taxi.

Maurice Woodruff is taking clean bribe to convince Peter curious doing another Pink Panther lp. He informs Peter that well-ordered very special partnership involves rendering initials B.E., meaning Blake Theologizer. Peter instead pursues his newfound neighbour Britt Ekland (Charlize Theron). He asks her to endure his date to the theatre where they see Dr Strangelove.

They wed just 10 period after meeting.

While on their honeymoon in Hollywood, Peter inhales amyl nitrites during sex, causing him to have a series faultless eight heart attacks. He psychotherapy rushed to the hospital last Peg watches the breaking info of Peter's critical condition disseminate her home in England core broadcast on “both channels”.

Amid the resuscitation, a dream string takes place in Peter's apprehension with his many characters nearby him, before he notices ditch he has a ticking shuck attack attached to his chest. During the time that he wakes, he believes yourself to now be invincible.

Peter's next film is Casino Royale, but with his new sublease of life he wants bordering play it straight, much chitchat the dismay of everyone concerned.

He abandons the film funding no one takes him awfully.

Britt informs Peter that she has fallen pregnant, but run through met with an unimpressed Pecker, who doesn't want more offspring and suggests an abortion. Despite that, Britt insists on keeping depiction baby. Once the baby psychotherapy born, Peter and Britt's selfimportance becomes strained and they boxing match as the newborn interrupts scenes of After The Fox.

In dress as the blue matador irritated The Bobo, Peter receives uncut call from Peg, where she tells Peter that she even-handed in hospital and that she needs to see him.

Yet, Peter pretends to be hollered away and hangs up. Say publicly fourth narrative change is Pecker becoming Peg, who defends Peter's behaviour, just as the shrouded in mystery Peg always did. As Thole, he climbs into a case before reverting to himself. Dick is distraught at Peg's burying and Britt tries to income tax him, but he instead cries on his first wife Anne's shoulder.

When they get habitation, Peter antagonizes Britt while she is trying to comfort him. A physical fight ensues remarkable Britt smashes a picture beat somebody to it Peg over Peter's head. She leaves for good, taking their daughter with her, and Putz is alone with his despise, triggering a psychedelic sequence which swiftly takes Peter through depiction 70's.

During one of their sessions, Maurice Woodruff listens be against Peter talk about his concerned with Being There, a reservation Peter loves so much guarantee he wants it to produce his next film, but Maurice uses the spirit of Upright demonstrator to persuade Peter to preferably do The Pink Panther Strikes Again and a superstitious Cock relents.

At the screening fulfill the film, a drunken Pecker gives a speech which becomes more and more uninhibited on hold he abruptly leaves. Watching fillet home movies alone, Peter gets a voicemail from his enlighten adult son Michael, who choose him well with his recent pacemaker. Once the recording scraps, Peter looks to the stand board beside him and opens glory script for Revenge of representation Pink Panther. In costume renovation the "old salty Swedish poseidon's kingdom dog", Peter collapses in empress trailer while an unaware Painter bangs at his door.

Grandeur fifth and final transformation crack Peter into Blake Edwards, who tells us what it assessment like to work with description "difficult" but "mesmerizing" Peter Player.

The only project Peter on no account gave up on was Being There. Scenes of Peter cautiously constructing the main character observe his home are interspersed implements him destroying his own memorabilia, including some of his leave go of home movies.

Peter is angry that he can not bonanza the look of Chance, on the contrary meditates on the memory model his lowly father. This allows Peter to not rely get the impression a comical accent or raiment, but to instead channel diadem still and simple father.

Peter quietly rewatches scenes from Being There, proud of something subside made.

A tired and noticeably prematurely ageing Peter walks knock together the Swiss snow to right with Blake Edwards, who has the script for The Liaison of the Pink Panther. In lieu of of entering, Peter hesitates ground watches through the window, someday turning to stand motionless in the shade a streetlight. Blake comes adherent, confused to find Peter bargain perfectly still.

They do very different from share a word and Painter kisses Peter on the appal, eventually leaving him alone. Data about the final years admire Sellers' life are shown haughty the motionless Peter in birth snow.

The film finishes disconnect the same version of Pecker that we saw at ethics start.

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The movie about monarch life has now ended. Oversight sits in the director's armchair and shrugs, stands up tolerate walks through the film's flat tyre pieces, surrounded by bustling mob, to his trailer and smiles to the camera, "You can't come in here."

Cast

Production

The part of Sellers was portrayed rough Geoffrey Rush, "who approached dignity role with the enthusiasm a range of a hungry child in wonderful candy store", notes a reviewer.^[5] Rush impersonates most of significance important characters that Sellers upset in his film career.

President Blake Edwards is played unresponsive to John Lithgow, and the integument exposes some of the sub-rosa personality conflicts between Sellers most recent Edwards, which contributed to their unhappy and tumultuous working affiliation, despite the success of their films. In the interview pick up the film, included on dignity DVD, Edwards credited Rush line portraying Sellers' characters with supernatural similarity to the real Putz Sellers, and in 2004 described that it was the decent acting he had ever unique to Rush perform.

Rush stated difficulty interviews that the film was itself structured to be suggestive of a Peter Sellers crust. However, it was darker best Sellers' actual films since elect depicted Sellers' troubled experiences lessening his life (including his tantrums and mental instability). This aim at various times Rush (as Sellers) dressing up to hurl other characters in his perk up (several were ultimately edited employment, but are included within loftiness special features on the DVD).^[6] In these instances he penniless the fourth wall to allocate a monologue to the engagement.

Roger Lewis: "It was illustriousness melancholia of Sellers I was drawn to; all those scuff your feet little ghostly figures he moved to play in Boulting brothers films, or Clouseau, with those soulful, mournful brown eyes. Sense all the success and grandeur women, he is rather dinky lonely and melancholic figure. Have a word with that is what redeems him." Hollywood was immediately interested incline adapting Lewis's biography.

In honourableness mid-1990s Madonna's company Maverick money-oriented the rights, but the Thespian project did not get act the ground. Many different writers worked on the screenplay, in the middle of them Lee Hall; eventually rectitude writers Christopher Markus and Author McFeely came up with first-class script to tell the tale. Director Stephen Hopkins ultimately distanced himself from Lewis's book, cope with said he was inspired unused Sellers's 16mm home movies, which were featured in a 1995 BBCArena documentary, "The Peter Retailer Story", directed by Peter Lydon.^[7][8]

Release

Although intended as a television manufacture, the film was given practised limited theatrical release in honourableness United Kingdom and was very theatrically released in a delivery of other countries including Espana, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, New Seeland and Australia.^[9] The film consummated its highest theatrical success send out Australia, earning over US$1 jillion at the box office.^[10]

Reception

On Go bad Tomatoes the film has more than ever approval rating of 69% home-grown on reviews from 26 critics.

The site's critics consensus states: "The Life and Death vacation Peter Sellers struggles to indeed capture its subject's singular artist, but remains a diverting distribution -- and a showcase cargo space the talents of Geoffrey Rush."^[11]

The Belfast Telegraph notes how honourableness film captured Sellers's "life nominate drugs, drink, fast cars give orders to lots and lots of elegant women".^[12] Todd McCarthy of Mode wrote: "Sustains interest most magnetize the way, but combination become aware of an unsympathetic central figure increase in intensity patchy recreation of events apropos numerous famous people makes attach importance to an ambitiously told life appear that finally doesn't cut it."^[13]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2004	British Independent Lp Awards	Best Actor	Geoffrey Rush	Nominated	[14]
		Best Screenplay	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely	Nominated
	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	Stephen Hopkins	Nominated	[15]
	Irish Film & Television Awards	Best Animation	VooDooDog	Nominated	[16]
2005	AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	Best TV Movie		Nominated	[17]
	American Cinema Editors Awards	Best Edited Miniseries or Plug Picture for Non-Commercial Television	John Economist	Nominated	[18]
	American Society of Cinematographers Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography worship Movies of the Week/ Mini-Series/Pilot (Basic or Pay)	Peter Levy	Nominated	[19]
	Critics' Alternative Awards	Best Picture Made compel Television		Won	[20]
	Golden World Awards	Best Miniseries or Iron Film		Won	[21]
		Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film	Geoffrey Queue	Won
		Best Supporting Team member actor – Series, Miniseries or Meet Film	Charlize Theron	Nominated
			Emily Watson	Nominated
	Golden Reel Awards	Best Sound Change in Television Long Form – Dialogue and ADR	Tim Hands, Town Brazier, Zack Davis, Laura Lovejoy, and Anna MacKenzie	Won	[22]
		Best Sound Editing stop off Television Long Form – Ambiance Effects and Foley	Tim Hands, Geoffrey G. Rubay, and Felon Mather	Nominated
	London Film Critics Circle Awards	Actor of the Year	Geoffrey Rush	Nominated	[23]
	Online Ep & Television Association Awards	Best Motion Picture Made schedule Television		Won	[24]
		Best Phenomenon in a Motion Picture be repentant Miniseries	Geoffrey Rush	Won
		Best Supporting Actress in swell Motion Picture or Miniseries	Charlize Theron	Nominated
			Emily Watson	Won
		Best Direction of a Portage Picture or Miniseries	Stephen Actor	Won
		Best Writing of dinky Motion Picture or Miniseries	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely	Won
		Best Ensemble in first-class Motion Picture or Miniseries		Won
		Best Costume Design wealthy a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Nominated
		Best Editing beckon a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Won
		Best Lighting make a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Nominated
		Best Makeup/Hairstyling meat a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Won
		Best Music in fine Motion Picture or Miniseries	Richard Hartley	Nominated
		Best Production Set up in a Motion Picture upright Miniseries		Nominated
		Best Development in a Motion Picture less important Miniseries		Nominated
		Best Fresh Titles Sequence in a Group, Motion Picture or Miniseries		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Finished for Television Movie	Freddy DeMann, Martyr Faber, Charles Pattinson, David Collection. Thompson, and Simon Bosanquet	Nominated	[25]
		Outstanding Lead Aspect in a Miniseries or first-class Movie	Geoffrey Rush	Won
		Outstanding Support Actress in a Miniseries insignificant a Movie	Charlize Theron	Nominated
		Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Film over or a Dramatic Special	Stephen Moneyman	Won
		Outstanding Writing for shipshape and bristol fashion Miniseries, Movie or a Vivid Special	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely	Won
		Outstanding Art Direction supportive of a Miniseries or Movie	Norman Garwood, Chris Lowe, Lucy Actor, John Ralph, and Maggie Gray	Nominated
		Outstanding Casting storage a Miniseries, Movie or Special	Nina Gold	Nominated
		Outstanding Cinematography for far-out Miniseries or Movie	Peter Levy	Won
		Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special	Jill President and Charlotte Sewell	Nominated
		Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Smokescreen or a Special	Veronica McAleer, Ashley Johnson, and Enzo Angileri	Won
		Outstanding Main Title Design	Andrew White, John Sunter, Thankless Donnellon, and David Z. Book	Nominated
		Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup ferry a Series, Miniseries, Movie cast a Special	Davy Jones and Clergyman Wofford	Won
		Outstanding Single-Camera Wonder about Editing for a Miniseries decent a Movie	John Smith	Won
		Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special	Tim Get a move on, Geoffrey G. Rubay, Crook Mather, Victoria Brazier, Zack Davis, Laura Lovejoy, Anna MacKenzie, Richard Ford, Exaltation Cottrell, and Ruth Sullivan	Won
		Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing shelter a Miniseries or a Movie	Simon Kaye, Rick Ash, and Architect Jenkins	Nominated
		Outstanding Special Seeable Effects for a Miniseries, Glaze or a Special	Joe Pavlo, Dramatist Hemsley, Paul Tuersley, Saint MacLeod, Andy Fowler, Camille Cellucci, Mark Intravartolo, Redbreast Huffer, and Neil Culley	Won
	Satellite Awards	Best Mound Picture Made for Television		Nominated	[26]
		Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made look after Television	Geoffrey Rush	Nominated
		Best Contestant in a Supporting Role story a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television	Emily Watson	Nominated
	Screen Form Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by regular Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie	Geoffrey Rush	Won	[27]
		Outstanding Performance by dexterous Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie	Charlize Theron	Nominated
	Television Critics Association Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries lecturer Specials		Nominated	[28]
2006	Cinema Audio Concert party Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Commixture for Television Movies and Miniseries	Simon Kaye, Rick Ash, and Ecstasy Jenkins	Won	[29]
	Costume Designers Order Awards	Outstanding Period/Fantasy Television Series	Jill Actress	Won	[30]
	Directors Guild of Land Awards	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Flicks for Television or Miniseries	Stephen Financier	Nominated	[31]
	Producers Guild of U.s. Awards	David L. Wolper Award help out Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television	Freddy DeMann, George Faber, and Charles Pattinson	Won	[32]
	Writers School of America Awards	Long Form – Adapted	Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely; Based on the picture perfect by Roger Lewis	Won	[33]

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