"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, in an impossible task to prove himself to the world and to himself. A chance audition for a musical leads him to join forces with composer Jim Steinman, and together the two make music history with the operatic rock album "Bat Out of Hell." But the demons that drive Meat Loaf aren't assuaged by success, and eventually he must come to terms with them.
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W. Earl Brown
Meat Loaf
Known for
The Book of Boba Fett
Deadwood
Dedee Pfeiffer
Leslie
Known for
Big Sky
The Horror Show
Jim McBride
Ron McGee
April Webster
Zachary Throne
Jim Steinman
Fritzi Horstman
David Bloch
Tim Kelleher
David Sonenberg
Known for
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Seven Pounds
Peter Manoogian
Denis Lenoir
Tom Wood
Kevin Frears
Known for
The Fugitive
Ulee's Gold
Jim McBride Director · Ron McGee Writer Hummie Mann Composer
United States release July 26, 2000 · Produced in United States
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · January 5, 2000
Theatrical
United States · July 26, 2000
Germany
April 19, 2001 · video premiere
Hungary
March 13, 2001 · video premiere
Iceland
February 22, 2001 · video premiere
Japan
May 25, 2001 · video premiere
New Zealand
June 19, 2001 · video premiere
Portugal
February 5, 2002
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