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Release Date
• USA: Jul 26, 1991
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 18, 2003
MPAA Rating
PG13
Running Time
1 hour, 32 minutes
Country USA, France
Studio Brooks Films, Canal Plus, MGM
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Other Titles
• Life Stinks
• Life Sucks (1991)
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Genre: Comedy, Role-switching, Betrayal, Slapstick, Farce
Plot: LIFE STINKS is the very funny, at times touching, and pointed commentary on greed, deceit, and human dignity. Director Mel Brooks stars as Goddard Bolt, a billionaire developer who is challenged by business rival Vance Crasswell (Jeffrey Tambor) to live on the streets without money for one month among the homeless both men are trying to further displace by building on the property that is their only home. Goddard is forced to dance for his money, avoid turf wars, develop survival tactics, live in a cardboard box, and more. But along the way, he makes valuable friends among the street people who teach him that life is not about owning material items but about the integrity of the human spirit. One of these is bag lady Molly (Lesley Ann Warren), who, in one of the most inspired moments of the film, dances with Goddard in a dilapidated building to the strains of Cole Porter's "Easy to Love." It is humanistic moments such as this one that makes what could have been a silly movie into a film more reminiscent of Brooks's madcap but poignant films such as YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
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| Directed by |
Mel Brooks
Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Spaceballs |
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| Written by |
Mel Brooks
The Producers, The Nude Bomb, Get Smart | Ron Clark
High Anxiety, Silent Movie, Revenge of the Pink Panther |
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 | Mel Brooks
Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood: Men in Tights | | | Rudy De Luca
History of the World: Part I, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, High Anxiety | |
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| Music By |
John Morris
Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, The Elephant Man |
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