The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers

Stephen Hopkins over-praised, made-for-HBO adaptation of Roger Lewis' Sellers biography was nominated for 16 Emmy Awards and draws parallels between the troubled star's chaotic life and the helter-skelter nature of his comedies. Born into a lower middle-class family, Peter Sellers (Geoffrey Rush) basks in the adoration of his henpecked father, Bill (Peter Vaughan), and his ambitious stage mother, Peg (Myriam Margolyes). Though Sellers wowing the television-viewing public on the anarchic Goon Show, the wunderkind has trouble crossing over into movies. Although he marries his understanding sweetheart, Anne (Emily Watson), and starts a family, the immature, tempe...