The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Stephen Hopkins' "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" is a monumental film that undertook the difficult task of understanding the late Peter Sellers. This unique actor, with such a complicated personality and who lived such a turbulent life, comes... Full review

Biopics are a devilish thing. Is as if the subject himself boycotted the operation from beyond the grave. The ultimate breach of privacy, isn't it? One feels like a voyeur, compelled and revolted at the same time. Goeffrey Rush's brilliant... Full review

Let there be no doubt that Peter Sellers would be an enormously difficult part to play. He has to be one of the few actors in film history who is more complex than the characters he played. (unless one considers... Full review

It might be impossible to capture every aspect of a man's life in a two-hour film (A & E Biography frequently fails at this in the one-hour format with the bigger stars) while giving everything its proper weight. Peter Sellers'... Full review

Geoffrey Rush does a great Peter Sellers impersonation, and Emily Watson shines as his wife, but otherwise the film is a little hard to recommend. The events all seem a bit fragmented, the frantic editing and camera-work subtract, and nothing... Full review

The story begins with the Goons and ends just after his role in the movie, Being There, thirty years later. A lot of the film features recreations of famous moments in Seller's acting life, such as appearing on "The Goons"... Full review

Peter Sellers is without question one the greatest comical geniuses of not just the 20th Century, but of all time. Rush's portrayal of Sellers is brilliant, a man whose true self was as transparent of one his many character creations.... Full review

For anyone interested in Peter Sellers life and work, this film is certainly worth watching, if for nothing more than the incredible re-creations of scenes from Sellers' films. Geoffrey Rush is transformed into a nearly dead-ringer for Sellers, through the... Full review

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers has to be one of the most creative, complex and revealing non-documentary movies ever made about an actual person, living or dead, and the inspired casting of Geoffrey Rush is spot on -... Full review

I'm a sap when it comes to movie watching so the peeling away of the character of Peter Sellers made the film a hard watch for me. That in no way implies anything derogatory about this wonderful film, just that... Full review

The Life And Death of Peter Sellers is well worth seeing - on every count. A splendid near-final scene showing Sellers hallucinating through the bright, circular light of the operating theatre, when all his characters surround him. ... Full Review

The Life And Death of Peter Sellers is well worth seeing - on every count. A splendid near-final scene showing Sellers hallucinating through the bright, circular light of the operating theatre, when all his characters surround him. ... Full Review

Partly due to his lack of the traditional movie star good looks, Sellers jump to television and later on, into films, was not exactly smooth and was probably in doubt for a while. Starting off in the 50s on the long-running BBC Radio show called "The Goon Show", Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) quickly established himself as a talented artist with a knack for doing funny impressions. ... Full Review

But Charlize Theron is excellent and Rush, as I say, is beyond praise. David: I thought Geoffrey Rush was amazing in this film. All the performances are terrific however with Theron and Rush simply outstanding. ... Full Review

The whole film hinges on how well Geoffrey Rush plays, nay, inhabits the form of Peter Sellers and make the audience forget that its an actor under those false wigs, raincoats, prosthetics and beards. In the end, Peter Sellers isn't a particularly interesting person; his films stand as more fitting testament to his status as entertainer than this biopic ever will. ... Full Review

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Film Worth: $12.50 Such a biopic is brave and possibly crazy, having to contend not only with the immense body of screen icon Peter Sellers' work, but also with the bizarre working of Sellers' mind. ... Full Article

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In this telling -- based on a book by Roger Lewis -- Sellers, who rose to international fame as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series, was an impossible narcissist, mama's boy, and all-around case of arrested development. ... Full Article

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