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.
12 May 1948, Newark, New Jersey, USA
13 January 1944, USA
October 3, 1927
28 July 1937, South Gate, California, USA
28 September 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 August 1946, New York City, New York, USA
20 November 1923, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
26 November 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
25 October 1924, Millsboro, Pennsylvania, USA
6 March 1955, Los Angeles County, California, USA
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
14 February 1924, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
7 July 1931, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 December 1917, Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
12 November 1951, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 1943, New York City, New York, USA
October 19, 2004
Lesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at all
February 05, 2003
Good message, bad comedy.
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 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.
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.
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.
August 14, 2003
So pretty much does this Brooks misfire.
