Man on the Moon
Release: December 22, 1999

This biographical film focuses 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 (himself), 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. starring Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter Bonerz, Jerry Lawler himself, Gerry Becker, and Leslie Lyles. Milos Forman directs from the adaptation by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski. Produced by DeVito, Michael Stacey and Stacy Sher; Executive Producers: George Shapiro & Howard West and Michael Hausman. Music by the alternative rock band R.E.M., in which they perform "The Great Beyond" and the title song • Score Produced by Pat McCarthy; Soundtrack Album on Jersey/Warner Bros. Records. a Jersey Films/Cinehaus production, with Shapiro/West Productions, for Universal Pictures and Mutual Film Company, produced in association with Tele-Munchen, the BBC and Marubeni/Toho-Towa.

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Quotes
Andy: "You see this...? This is soup!.... And this...? Toliet paper!"
Andy: "And the dog goes...?"
Sister: "Woof!"
Andy: "And the cow goes...?"
Sister: "Moo!"
Andy: "And the bird goes...?"
Sister: "...."
Andy: "Tweet."
Sister: "Tweet."
Andy: "And the cat goes...?"
Audience: "Me-ow"
Andy: "And that! Is the way it goes!"
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