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Life Stinks
Affluent and arrogant businessman bets a corporate rival that he has the wits and street smarts to live penniless and anonymous on the rough streets of Los Angeles for 30 days, which proves to be tougher than he thought.
13 January 1944, USA
26 August 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
7 May 1956, Santa Monica, California, USA
13 September 1952, South Bronx, New York, USA
6 November 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 August 1959, Ellensburg, Washington, USA
10 December 1943, New York City, New York, USA
13 June 1921, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
25 October 1924, Millsboro, Pennsylvania, USA
19 December 1917, Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
20 April 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 July 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 March 1923, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
8 April 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
January 01, 2000
About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.
August 14, 2003
So pretty much does this Brooks misfire.
February 15, 2007
A slapstick vaudeville about the poor and homeless? Inadvertently Mel Brooks gives the dangerous impression that homelessness is cute and that Downtown LA is filled with adorable and eccentric people who "just happen" to be roofless.
February 13, 2003
This was supposed to be Brooks's comical stab at social injustice, a kind of My Man Godfrey for the nineties, but it doesn't work.
February 05, 2003
Good message, bad comedy.
July 14, 2004
The slapstick here is nothing to rent the film over. Oddly, it's the serious moments that charm. I was embarrassed to myself for being choked up by Mel Brooks.
October 19, 2004
Lesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at all
