Life Stinks (1991) ( Life Sucks )

Life Stinks (1991) (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Life Sucks
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mel Brooks

Written By:
Mel Brooks
Ron Clark

Actors:
Mel Brooks ..... Goddard Bolt
Lesley Ann Warren ..... Molly
Jeffrey Tambor ..... Vance Crasswell
Stuart Pankin ..... Pritchard
Howard Morris ..... Sailor
Rudy De Luca ..... J. Paul Getty
Teddy Wilson ..... Fumes
Michael Ensign ..... Knowles
Matthew Faison ..... Stevens
Billy Barty ..... Willy
Brian Thompson ..... Mean Victor
Raymond O'Connor ..... Yo
Carmine Caridi ..... Flophouse Owner
Sammy Shore ..... Reverend at Wedding
Frank Roman ..... Spanish Interpreter

Synopsis:

In Life Stinks, Goddard Bolt, a billionaire developer, is challenged by business rival Vance Crasswell to live on the streets without money for one month among the homeless. 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, 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.

If a comedy is to be made from the plight of the homeless, who have to scrape through their days returning deposit bottles and cleaning car windshields to get their daily bread as the rich get richer and more heartless, it may as well be Mel Brooks' Life Stinks. The trademark Brooks humor dominates this fable about a ruthless billionaire, Goddard Bolt (Mel Brooks), who wants to obliterate a poor section of Los Angeles and build a high-tech commercial center in its place. His only problem is that he owns only half the land needed for the construction, the other half belonging to equally ruthless billionaire Vance Craswell (Jeffrey Tambor), who has his own ideas for the land. The two try to buy each other out until, finally, a deal is struck: Craswell bets that Bolt cannot survive a month on the streets as a homeless man. If Bolt makes it, he gets the property. If he doesn't, Craswell gets it. Bolt agrees and, as a poor man, he begins to feel the pain of being uprooted and alone, even meeting a friendly homeless woman, Molly (Lesley Ann Warren) with whom he forms an attachment.

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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