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.
26 August 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 October 1924, Millsboro, Pennsylvania, USA
7 May 1956, Santa Monica, California, USA
28 August 1959, Ellensburg, Washington, USA
6 November 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
10 May 1954, Tacoma, Washington, USA
16 September 1922, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
14 October 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 September 1952, South Bronx, New York, USA
13 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
22 March 1923, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
28 July 1937, South Gate, California, USA
5 January 1925, USA
20 April 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 March 1955, Los Angeles County, California, USA
7 July 1931, Brooklyn, New York, USA
28 September 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 December 1924, New York, USA
August 14, 2003
So pretty much does this Brooks misfire.January 01, 2000
About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.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.October 19, 2004
Lesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at allJuly 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.February 05, 2003
Good message, bad comedy.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.