Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000) Online
"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.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
W. Earl Brown | - | Meat Loaf | |
Dedee Pfeiffer | - | Leslie Edmonds | |
Zachary Throne | - | Jim Steinman | |
Tim Kelleher | - | David Sonenberg | |
Tom Wood | - | Kevin Frears | |
Kim Robillard | - | Wes Aday | |
Lisa Jane Persky | - | Wilma Aday | |
Jona Kai Jacobsen | - | Little Meat | |
Brooke Averi | - | Little Pearl | |
Gretchen Storms | - | Young Pearl | |
Marissa Leigh | - | Amanda | |
Elisabeth Lund | - | Teenage Pearl (as Elisabeth Z. Lund) | |
Bess Meyer | - | Erin | |
Sandra Purpuro | - | Karla DeVito | |
Sean Smith | - | Steve Popovich |
Meat Loaf was opposed to this film being made, and it wasn't until the scene after he (Meat Loaf) had been told he's number 1, where his friends call him 'Meat', that he came around and cheered for himself, over coming his 'fat kid' moniker
Meatloaf's daughter, Amanda Aday, has a small part as Grocery Clerk.
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