"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.
W. Earl Brown
as Meat Loaf
Dedee Pfeiffer
as Leslie
Zachary Throne
as Jim Steinman
Tim Kelleher
as David Sonenberg
Tom Wood
as Kevin Frears
Lisa Jane Persky
as Wilma Aday
Kim Robillard
as Wes Aday
Brooke Averi
as Little Pearl
Gretchen Storms
as Young Pearl
Marissa Leigh
as Amanda
Elisabeth Lund
as Teenage Pearl
Bess Meyer
as Erin
