"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.
Directed by Jim McBride
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Cast
W. Earl Brown
Meat Loaf
Dedee Pfeiffer
Leslie
Zachary Throne
Jim Steinman
Tim Kelleher
David Sonenberg
Tom Wood
Kevin Frears
Lisa Jane Persky
Wilma Aday
Kim Robillard
Wes Aday
Brooke Averi
Little Pearl
Gretchen Storms
Young Pearl
Marissa Leigh
Amanda
Elisabeth Lund
Teenage Pearl
Bess Meyer
Erin
Sandra Purpuro
Karla DeVito
Sean Smith
Steve Popovich
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