Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back

The story

"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.

Cast & crew

W. Earl BrownMeat Loaf

Dedee PfeifferLeslie

Zachary Throne

Zachary ThroneJim Steinman

Tim KelleherDavid Sonenberg

Tom WoodKevin Frears

Lisa Jane PerskyWilma Aday

Kim RobillardWes Aday

Brooke Averi

Brooke AveriLittle Pearl

Gretchen Storms

Gretchen StormsYoung Pearl

Marissa Leigh

Marissa LeighAmanda

Elisabeth Lund

Elisabeth LundTeenage Pearl

Bess MeyerErin