Details

Release year: 2000

Storyline

"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.

Top credits

Directors

Jim McBride

Writers

Ron McGee

Cast

W. Earl Brown — Meat Loaf
Dedee Pfeiffer — Leslie Edmonds
Zachary Throne — Jim Steinman
Tim Kelleher — David Sonenberg

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Did you know

• Meat Loaf's daughter, Amanda Aday, has a small part as Grocery Clerk.

• 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

• Meat Loaf did an extensive tour of Europe in the 80s ending up in Ireland in '89 where he played 19 sellout concerts, one of the last ones at a festival in Tipperary. Meat Loaf was very vocal & outspoken about his stint in Ireland restoring his love for performing & his music. This really should have been included as part of this story.