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Life (1999) is a comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. The film was directed by Ted Demme who has directed several other films including for Blow and Beautiful Girls. In addition to Murphy and Lawrence, Life boasts an additional cast of Bernie Mac, Anthony Anderson, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Bokeem Woodbine, and others.

The film was released in April of 1999 and went on to gross over sixty million dollars at the box office. K-Ci & JoJo sang the theme to the movie, which was titled "Life", but it was the song Fortunate that garned the most attention from the soundtrack as it received several awards and nominations.

The film was shot at various locations in California. The locations include Locke, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Downey, CA, and Sacramento, CA. Parts of the film were actually shot at a Rockwell Defense Plant in California.

Synopsis

Ray (Murphy) and Claude (Lawrence) are two business men who are forced into moonshining in order to pay off some old debts. They head down south from New York in order to sell their product and end up in Mississippi. A man is murdered outside of a juke joint by a group of white men but Ray and Clause happen to be in the area of the murder and are framed. They go to trial and spend the next seven decades trying to escape from prison, making new friends, and helping their own friendship grow. After several decades they successfully escape from prison and are shown at the end of the movie enjoying a baseball game in New York City.

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Awards & Nominations

Academy Award
*nominated for Best Makeup (2000)
NAACP Image Award
*nominated for Outstanding Motion Picture (2000)
BMI Film & TV Awards
*won for Most Performed Song from a Film (2000)
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
*nominated with Eddie Murphy
for Favorite Comedy Team (2000) for the movie
*nominated for Favorite Song from a Movie (Fortunate)

Facts and Trivia

In the scene where Ray is getting beat up in a fight with Goldmouth, Rayford says to Goldmouth: "I know a bitch named Della who hits harder than you." This is a reference to Harlem Nights
(1989), in which Murphy's character is beat up in a fight with a madame played by Della Reese
.

Spanky's (Rick James) limp was not acting. The scene was shot after Rick James underwent hip replacement surgery.

In the scene where Ray and Claude are standing on a box of bottles, Claude mentions that a one of his toes has slipped into one of them. This actually happened during the take, but Martin Lawrence kept going, despite Eddie Murphy's laughing, which is genuine.

Soundtrack Listing

#"25 to Life" Xzibit, Ja Rule, Juvenile, Nature, Reptile #"It's Like Everyday" DJ Quik & R. Kelly #"Stimulate Me" Destiny's Child f/Mocha #"Fortunate" Maxwell * #"Lovin' You" Sparkle #"Every Which Way" Talent f/Vegas Cats #"It's Gonna Rain" Kelly Price #"Discovery" Brian McKnight #"Follow the Wind" Trisha Yearwood #"Why Should I Believe You?" Mya #"What Would You Do?" City High * #"What Goes Around" Khadegia f/Marie Antoinette #"Speechless" Isley Brothers f/Ronald Isley #"Life" K-Ci & Jo Jo * #"New Day" Wyclef Jean
(*) indicates songs were released as singles

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