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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 September 1952, South Bronx, New York, USA
4 October 1960, Lima, Ohio, USA
19 December 1917, Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
27 July 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
February 05, 2003
Good message, bad comedy.
August 14, 2003
So pretty much does this Brooks misfire.
October 19, 2004
Lesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at all
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.