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Life

The movie "Life" begins with an old inmate named Willie Long ,at the burial of his two friends who just recently died in a fire in the prison. Wille begins telling two young men by name of Heavy D and Bonz who work at the prison.

Eddie Murphy as Ray Gibson and Martin Lawrence as Claude Banks Claude Banks were both from New Yorkers, in 1932 from different style . Ray is a small time town hustler and Claude has just got accepted for a job as a bank teller, trying to become something in life . They are both at a club called Spanky's when Ray see and picks Claude as his mark to pick pocket him. Later they both end up in debt to the club's owner, a loan shark named Spanky. Ray make ...

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Ray and Claude make several attempts to escape the prison. Early in their incarceration, they simply try running away in the middle of the night, getting as far as Tallahatchie before being tracked down--they are sentenced to a week in solitary confinement. Around 1944, during World War II, they meet a mute inmate named 'Can't-Get-Right' (Woodbine) who happens to be a talented baseball player. He catches the eye of a Negro League scout who indicates he can get him out of prison to play baseball. Seeing this as a golden opportunity to get out of prison, Ray and Claude tell the scout to put a word in for them as well (as they relate to 'Can't-Get-Right' in that they can coax him best to play). A month before his release, a gay inmate, Biscuit (Miguel A. Nuñez), commits suicide by deliberately running into a gun line. After 'Can't-Get-Right' is released to play baseball in Pittsburgh, Ray makes another escape plan (namely, hijacking a Stearman cropduster in a ...

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Added: 3/27/2011 11:40:42 AM
Submitted By: norris1
Category: Film & Theater
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