<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $80 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $73,345,029 </Td> </Tr> <P> Life is a 1999 American comedy - drama film written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone and directed by Ted Demme . The film stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence . It is the second film that Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence have worked on, the first being Boomerang . The supporting cast includes Obba Babatundé, Bernie Mac, Anthony Anderson, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Bokeem Woodbine, Guy Torry and Barry Shabaka Henley . The film's format is a story being told by an elderly inmate about two of his friends, who are both wrongly convicted of murder and given a life sentence in prison . As of 2018, Life stands as the last R - rated feature to date for Eddie Murphy, whose subsequent works have earned either PG or PG - 13 ratings . </P> <P> Elderly inmate Willie Long (Obba Babatundé) attends the burial of two friends who recently perished in an infirmary fire in a Mississippi prison . He begins telling the two young inmates digging the graves his friends' life story . </P>

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