Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000) (TV)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Jim McBride

Writer:

Ron McGee (writer)

Release Date:

26 July 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic...

Plot Keywords:

Alcoholic | Abusive Father | Dallas Texas | Director | Rock Singer

Cast

W. Earl Brown	...	Meat Loaf
Dedee Pfeiffer	...	Leslie
Zachary Throne	...	Jim Steinman
Tom Wood	...	Kevin Frears
Lisa Jane Persky	...	Wilma Aday
Kim Robillard	...	Wes Aday
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Amanda Aday	...	Clerk
Keith Allan	...	Tim Curry
Brooke Averi	...	Little Pearl
Scott Baldyga	...	Guitarist
Thomas Bellin	...	Old Minister
Bruce Bohne	...	Sam Ellis
Emmy Collins	...	Gregg Allman
Jeff Freilich	...	Rocky Horror director
Mollie Freilich	...	(voice)
Gordon Hart	...	Hair Dancer
Nicole Humphries	...	Hair Dancer
Jona Kai Jacobsen	...	Little Meat
Michael Keeley	...	'70s Drummer
Tim Kelleher	...	David Sonenberg
David A. Kleiler Jr.	...	Guitarist in early band
Marissa Leigh	...	Amanda
Jesse Lenat	...	Todd Rundgren
Elisabeth Lund	...	Pearl
Troy Martin	...	Roadie
Bess Meyer	...	Erin
Sandra Purpuro	...	Karla DeVito
Sean Smith	...	Steve Popovich
Gretchen Storms	...	Young Pearl
Michelle Marie White	...	Reporter
Kenneth Alan Williams	...	Vince

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some substance abuse and brief violence.

Runtime:

Germany:87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:L | Germany:6 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA

Goofs:

Errors in geography: Scenes supposedly filmed in Dallas County, Texas feature prominent mountains. There are no mountains whatsoever in Dallas County, Texas.

Movie Connections:

Features The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Good TV Movie but mixed up in some parts.

Meat Loaf is by far the greatest rock star of the 1970s 80s 90s and beyond. This movie is based on his Autobiography of the same name. Although currently available on vhs format VH1 and Paramount Pictures are bound to give in to the demand for DVD format featuring all the promotional extras that went with it. This movie is good but as I stated in my headline summary it is mixed up in some parts. Certain people places and things did or did not happen. One piece of the book I wished they had filmed was Meat Loaf driving through Arizona to California during the mid to late 1960's and picks up a hippie drifter on the highway. It turns out in the book that Meat Loaf wound up giving a ride to Charles Manson. I don't know how fans of Meat Loaf would have taken it but it would have been one of those shock moments in Meat Loafs' life where everyone would have gone WHOOOOOAAAA dude that was unreal.