The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
A moving and very convincing account of the private life, and private demons, of the acting genius Peter Sellers, played superbly by Geoffrey Rush. This is a very watchable film. Sellers couldn't handle relationships with loved ones very well, and he treated his first wife so shabbily that she left him. After a scene where this came to a head, he then replays the scene in his imagination as he would wish it to have been, and in the screenplay Rush plays Sellers imagining himself to be the wife.
Later, when his Mother is ill and desperately needs him, Sellers finds that he is to busy to be compassionate, and after an insensitive phone conversation, he replays it, as his own Mother, as he would have wished it to have been.
HF September 2006
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