SummaryNot a documentary, not a Monty Python film, A Liar's Autobiography is Graham Chapman's own take on his bizarre life and his search for self-knowledge. 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 ... Read More
Directed By:Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett
Written By:Graham Chapman, David Sherlock
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
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Nov 8, 2012
75
Like a lesser Python entry ("The Meaning of Life"?), it's alternately brilliant and frustrating.
Feb 9, 2013
60
The film's depiction of the ugliness and strangeness of his self-hating LA celeb lifestyle is disturbing. Not just for Python fans.
Nov 1, 2012
60
The movie has enough weird-wild-ride brio to convince you that Chapman was indeed quite a character.
Nov 16, 2012
50
The film only really has a pulse when it switches to live action in a few brief archival snippets, most memorably in John Cleese's appropriately outrageous eulogy for his late friend, an offering in the name of "anything for him, but mindless good taste."
Oct 31, 2012
42
What's missing from this movie is any of that sense of what made Chapman so important, or why he was so often at the center of Monty Python's best skits and movies, up until his death from cancer at 48.
Nov 2, 2012
30
Feels like a failure on all fronts - unpleasant to look at, needlessly in 3D, drearily unfunny and worst of all an incomplete portrait of the person to whom it is ostensibly paying tribute.
Oct 29, 2012
0
Graham Chapman's story, frankly, is better served by his Wikipedia page.
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Production Company:
- Brainstorm Media
- Epix (I)
- Trinity Film Production
- Bill and Ben Productions
Release Date:Nov 2, 2012
Duration:1 h 25 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Still Dead, And Now in 3D
