Life Stinks

About Life Stinks

Affluent and arrogant businessman Goddard Bolt, feuding with rival Vance Crasswell over a land deal, makes a bet with Crasswell that he has the wits and street smarts to live penniless and anonymous on the rough streets of Los Angeles for thirty days. But Bolt has a rude awakening when the reality of homelessness hits him.

Life Stinks (1991) is a comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. The film is filed under parody, wealth, homeless, and wealth differences.

Mel Brooks appears as Goddard Bolt, Lesley Ann Warren as Molly, Jeffrey Tambor as Vance Crasswell, and Stuart Pankin as Pritchard. It runs 92 minutes and was released in June 1991.

The screenplay is by Mel Brooks and Rudy De Luca. It comes from Brooksfilms and MGM-Pathé Communications. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, and Her make useful companions to Life Stinks, all filed under satire. TMDB voters put it at 5.7 out of 10 across 231 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.