Defending Your Life

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Defending Your Life is a 1991 romantic fantasy-comedy film written, directed by, and starring Albert Brooks, set in a whimsical afterlife where a recently deceased man must literally defend the choices he made during his life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fantasy comedy film
film
romantic comedy film
boxOfficePerformance modest success
cinematographyBy Allen Daviau
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Albert Brooks
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
editedBy David Finfer
featuresCharacter defense attorney Bob Diamond
prosecutor Lena Foster
filmingLocation Los Angeles
genre comedy
fantasy
romantic comedy
hasCultFollowing true
hasTheme life after death
overcoming fear
personal growth
romantic relationships
mainCharacter Daniel Miller
Julia
mpaaRating PG-13
musicBy Michael Gore
notableFor depicting a bureaucratic, courtroom-like afterlife
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A recently deceased man must defend the choices he made during his life in a whimsical afterlife tribunal.
portraysFictionalLocation Judgment City
producer Albert Brooks
productionCompany The Geffen Company
surface form: Geffen Pictures
publicationDate 1991
releaseDateUS 1991-03-22
runtimeMinutes 112
screenwriter Albert Brooks
setting Judgment City
afterlife
starring Albert Brooks
Lee Grant
Meryl Streep
Rip Torn
writer Albert Brooks
writtenBy Albert Brooks
writtenDirectedAndStarring Albert Brooks

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Albert Brooks notableWork Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks directed Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks wrote Defending Your Life
Rip Torn notableWork Defending Your Life
Elmore Rual Torn Jr. notableWork Defending Your Life
Rip actedIn Defending Your Life
subject surface form: Rip Torn