Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back

"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.

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  Jim McBride

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  W. Earl Brown
  Meat Loaf
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  Dedee Pfeiffer
  Leslie
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  Zachary Throne
  Jim Steinman
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  Tim Kelleher
  David Sonenberg
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  Tom Wood
  Kevin Frears
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  Lisa Jane Persky
  Wilma Aday
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  Kim Robillard
  Wes Aday
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  Brooke Averi
  Little Pearl
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  Gretchen Storms
  Young Pearl
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  Marissa Leigh
  Amanda
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  Elisabeth Lund
  Teenage Pearl
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  Bess Meyer
  Erin
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  Sandra Purpuro
  Karla DeVito
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  Sean Smith
  Steve Popovich
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  Bruce Bohne
  Sam Ellis
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  Kenneth Alan Williams
  Record Executive
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  Thomas Bellin
  Old Minister
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  Amanda Aday
  Grocery Clerk
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  Jesse Lenat
  Todd Rungren
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  Michelle McGinty
  Interviewer