Title: Man on the Moon
Original Title: Man on the Moon
Year: 1999
Info
- Country: USA UK
- Length: 118 Minutes (1 hour 58 min)
- Budget: $52,000,000
- Genre: Comedy Drama Biography
- Studios: Universal Pictures
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: May 05 2000
- United States: December 22 1999
Plot
Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman, along with his role on "Taxi," was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, Jerry Lawler (who plays himself in the movie), a professional wrestler, got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had, Lawler prevailed with the piledriver, which is a move by spiking a guy head-first into the mat. In one of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on "The Late Show with David Letterman," got into fisticuffs with Lawler, and proceeded to sue NBC.
Cast
Director:
George Shapiro
Andy Kaufman
Michael Kaufman
Bob Zmuda
Christopher Lloyd - 'Taxi' Actor
Lynne Marguiles
Richard Belzer
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