✗ SKIP — Not worth it

Life Stinks

Name: Life Stinks
Director: Mel Brooks
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1991-06-05
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Michael Ensign

1991 · 1h 32m · Comedy

IMDb 5.9 Metacritic 54 RT 25%

Life Stinks is a Mel Brooks comedy that swings for the fences with a heart-on-sleeve message about privilege and homelessness, but the critics agree it mostly whiffs—the premise is solid, the execution is messy. Skip it unless you're a completist Brooks fan; there are way better comedies to spend your evening on.

Plot

Affluent and arrogant businessman Goddard Bolt, feuding with rival Vance Crasswell over a land deal, makes a bet with Crasswell that he has the wits and street smarts to live penniless and anonymous on the rough streets of Los Angeles for thirty days. But Bolt has a rude awakening when the reality of homelessness hits him. Still, he finds a silver lining in a burgeoning romance with Molly, a former Broadway dancer who has fallen on hard times.

Director: Mel Brooks

Cast: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Michael Ensign

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