"Double feature"--Container. Looking for comedy in the Muslim world: Albert Brooks, John Carroll Lynch, Sheetal Sheth, Jon Tenney, Fred Dalton Thompson. Defending your life: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry. Looking for comedy in the Muslim world: "The characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious"--Closing credits. Looking for comedy in the Muslim world originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Looking for comedy in the Muslim world: Special features (7 min.): additional scenes (5 min. total); theatrical trailer (2 min.). Defending your life: Special features: theatrical trailers; profiles.
Contents:
[side A.] Looking for comedy in the Muslim world -- [side B.] Defending your life.
Summary:
Looking for comedy in the Muslim world: A mockumentary film in which actor Albert Brooks (playing himself) travels to India & Pakistan on behalf of the United States government, in hopes of discovering what "makes Muslims laugh." Defending your life: Daniel Miller was tooling along a Los Angeles boulevard listening to Barbra Streisand sing "Something's Coming" when something came - a bus. One head-on crash later, Daniel wakes up deceased. And his troubles are just beginning ... Meryl Streep joins writer/director/star Brooks ... for a witty peek at the afterlife where you can eat all you want and not gain an ounce. But there's a catch: you're saddled with Defending Your Life. If you can't make a case for having lived a full and fearless one, you must go back to Earth and try again. Daniel's life was far from fearless. But after he meets ... Julia (Streep), he's determined not to go back"--Container.
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