Life Stinks (1991)


A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.

Life Stinks (1991)

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Released Year: 1991
Runtime: 92 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Directors: Mel Brooks

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A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.

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Reviews


75
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
It has its laughs, but it’s a more thoughtful film, more softhearted toward its characters. It’s warm and poignant.
75
Chicago Reader - Jonathan Rosenbaum
The movie takes a while to hit its stride, and its conclusion is fairly slapdash, but somewhere in between are some of the funniest bits of low slapstick Brooks has ever come up with, and an overall uncloying sweetness helps to save much of the rest.
75
Chicago Tribune - Dave Kehr
But if Brooks doesn't get the sting of reality he's looking for in Life Stinks, he does succeed with the film's fantasy elements-most memorably, a dance sequence set to Cole Porter's Easy to Love and performed by Warren and Brooks in a colorful used-clothing warehouse.
70
Los Angeles Times - Michael Wilmington
It's a risky movie, and an uneven one. But the impulses behind it are darker and stronger than in most of his previous comedies. Good or bad--and Life Stinks definitely has a weak, undeveloped side--I liked it.
70
Time Out - Unnamed
The grim, black humour of yore sporadically breaks through the glossy sheen, providing moments of vintage vitriol.

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A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.

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