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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 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
26 August 1919, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 November 1923, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
25 October 1924, Millsboro, Pennsylvania, USA
14 February 1924, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
20 April 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 September 1919, New York City, New York, USA
7 October 1956, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 September 1952, South Bronx, New York, USA
24 December 1931, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
27 July 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
19 December 1917, Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
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.
January 01, 2000
About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.
October 19, 2004
Lesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at all
February 05, 2003
Good message, bad comedy.
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 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.
August 14, 2003
So pretty much does this Brooks misfire.