The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
**½
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes
The story of Peter Sellers as if told by himself. The film vividly recreates the key moments in his personal and private life, and the star occasionally imagines himself playing the people close to him. This is because Sellers is portrayed as a brilliant actor who had no personality of his own. This approach is attention grabbing and alienating in equal measures, and in the end I feel like I don't know him any better. It's a one-man-show and Geoffrey Rush is awesome in the lead, but the supporting characters are barely sketched. Based on Roger Lewis's book.
