SummaryIn an afterlife way station resembling a block of hotels, the lives of the recently-deceased are examined in a court-like setting.
Directed By:Albert Brooks
Written By:Albert Brooks
Defending Your Life
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
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The movie is funny in a warm, fuzzy way, and it has a splendidly satisfactory ending, which is unusual for an Albert Brooks film
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Brooks-the-performer embodies the movie's spirit with superb modulation.
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Defending Your Life is an inventive and mild bit of whimsy from Albert Brooks.
67
The movie's light, easily forgotten and very good for a few laughs. I sure hope that eating thing comes true.
60
Within the larger context of the Brooks oeuvre, this pleasantly mortifying arrangement makes perfect sense. [22 Mar 1991, p.C12]
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Brooks as Brooks is the funniest observer of contemporary mores in Hollywood. Brooks behaving himself, as in Defending Your Life, is just another clever fellow. [05 Apr 1991, p.G5]
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The movie is lavishly designed and assembled. However, the sometimes muddled, sometimes boring, and definitely overlong screenplay, lacking subtlety and definition, disappoints the expectations of enjoyment that are set up in the first 15 minutes.
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Production Company:
- Geffen Pictures
Release Date:Apr 5, 1991
Duration:1 h 52 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:Judgment City Just Minutes Away. Turn Left Onto The Past Lives Parkway.
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 3 Nominations
20/20 Awards
• 1 Nomination
American Comedy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
