Life Stinks

Name: Life Stinks
Genre: Comedy
Released: July 26, 1991
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Billy Barty, Howard Morris, Jeffrey Tambor, Lesley Ann Warren, Matthew Faison

1991

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: July 26, 1991 | PG-13

Starring: Billy Barty, Howard Morris, Jeffrey Tambor, Lesley Ann Warren, Matthew Faison, Mel Brooks, Michael Ensign, Rudy De Luca, Stuart Pankin, Teddy Wilson

Summary: A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought.

Director: Mel Brooks

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 92 min

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Roger Ebert

It has its laughs, but it’s a more thoughtful film, more softhearted toward its characters. It’s warm and poignant. Read full review

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

Christopher Harris

Mel Brooks manages some richly funny scenes that are spoiled by excessive gags. [27 July 1991]

Janet Maslin

Even more dispiriting than the film's silly moments are its pious ones. Only at rare moments does Life Stinks offer much in the way of surprise or grace. Read full review

Bill Cosford

The film just has no edge, that's all. Brooks lets it go maudlin in the first half-hour or so, and for the balance we're left wondering what ever happened to the guy who made Blazing Saddles. [29 July 1991, p.C1]

Hal Hinson

Once upon a time [Brooks] was hilarious. And can still be, in interview, which is his true art form. But for some time now, his movies have not even cruised near the neighborhood of funny. And this one is the bottom of the barrel. Read full review

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