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                         Defending Your Life (1991)
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STARS...........: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn
DIRECTOR........: Albert Brooks
WRITERS.........: Albert Brooks
GENRE...........: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000101698
RUNTIME.........: 1h 51mn
SIZE............: 6.44 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 8000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English AAC 2.0 265kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2021-04-08


Is there love after death? Acerbic everyman Albert Brooks finds a perfect balance between satirical bite and romantic-comedy charm as the writer, director, and star of this wonderfully warm and imaginative existential fantasy. After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller (Brooks) finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia (Meryl Streep) offers him a chance to finally feel alive. Buoyed by a pitch-perfect supporting cast that includes Rip Torn, Lee Grant, and Buck Henry, Defending Your Life is a rare feat of personal, philosophical filmmaking that happens to also be divinely entertaining.


Extras

• New conversation between Brooks and filmmaker Robert Weide

• New interview with theologian and critic Donna Bowman about Brooks's vision of the afterlife

• New program featuring excerpts from interviews conducted in 1991 with Brooks and actors Lee Grant and Rip Torn

• Trailer