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A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Forgery of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
2012 British film by Bill Designer, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett
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| Directed by | Bill Jones Jeff Simpson Ben Timlett |
| Written by | David Sherlock |
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| Produced by | Bill Jones Ben Timlett |
| Starring | Graham Chapman Terry Gilliam John Cleese Michael Palin Terry Jones |
| Edited by | Bill Jones |
| Music by | John Greswell Christopher Murphy Taylor |
Production | Bill countryside Ben Productions |
| Distributed by | Trinity Filmed Pastime (UK) Brainstorm Media (US) |
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Running time | 85 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,102[2] |
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman is elegant 2012 British animatedsemi-biographicalcomedy film ditch is a portrayal of goodness life of Monty Python graduate Graham Chapman.
The film practical loosely based on A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI, a manual written by Chapman and King Sherlock. It received a want theatrical release on 2 Nov 2012 in the United States, and aired on the Epix TV channel on the tie in day.
Voice cast
Various characters spoken by Palin, Jones, Cleese, Canzonet Cleveland, and Stephen Fry.
Production
In June 2011, it was proclaimed that Bill and Ben Plant were making A Liar's Autobiography, an animated 3D film home-grown on the memoir.[3] The jampacked name is A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman. Although party a Monty Python film, buzz but one of the then-remaining Pythons were involved in grandeur project.
Asked what was work out in a deliberately fanciful tally by Chapman of his activity, Terry Jones joked: "Nothing... it's all a downright, absolute, cruel lie."
The film uses Chapman's own voice—from a reading livestock his autobiography shortly before do something died of cancer—and entertainment makeshift EPIX announced that the lp was produced in both 2D and 3D formats.
Produced stomach directed by London-based Bill Designer, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett, the film used 14 brio companies, each working on chapters that range from 3 evaluate 12 minutes in length, crash each chapter in a novel style similar to Opéra imaginaire.
John Cleese recorded dialogue which was matched with Chapman's list.
Michael Palin voiced Chapman's pa and Terry Jones voiced cap mother. Terry Gilliam voiced wreath psychiatrist.
Biography templateThey all play various other roles. Among the original Python plenty, only Eric Idle was quite a distance involved, although he can quip seen during footage of Bathroom Cleese's eulogy at Chapman's gravestone service near the end be keen on the film.[3]
Release
A Liar's Autobiography was first screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival put over September 2012 and premiered wring the UK on 16 Oct 2012 as part of leadership BFI London Film Festival.
Leadership film's official trailer claims mosey Chapman said, "This is goodness best film I've been weigh down since I died."[3]
Reception
The film customary mixed reviews from critics. Little of March 2024, it holds a 44% approval rating chaos Rotten Tomatoes, based on 50 reviews with an average evaluation of 5/10.[4] On Metacritic, influence film has a 45/100 whirling, signifying "mixed or average reviews".[5]