Life Stinks

Life Stinks (English original title Life stinks ) is an American comedy film from the year 1991 by Mel Brooks.

Action

The billionaire Goddard Bolt is an unscrupulous businessman. For its construction projects such as marinas and shopping centers he sells Native or invalids and pensioners. When he for a new project acquires properties of a slum in Los Angeles, he his rival Vance Crass Well come earlier and buys half of the slums. Since no one wants to sell the land to the other, both make a bet: Goddard Bolt must survive 30 days in the slum and not fall back on his financial resources or identify yourself as a billionaire. To control him a foot chain is created that raises an alarm when leaving the slums. Takes the alarm more than 30 seconds, Goddard Bolt has lost the bet. Suspended in the slum, the billionaire learns the contrasts between rich and poor in his own body to know.

He becomes acquainted with a former dancer who gave up her career for her husband and ended up in the gutter after the failure of the marriage. This woman, called Queen cans, and he fall in love. He manages to win him his bet, but he has now been told by his lawyers and his competitors incompetent. After some confusion but it manages to move its competitors in front of the television camera to a confession that he has won the bet.

The purified Bolt can now be on the premises a large park, free homes for the slum dwellers, as well as a hospital for this build, and married the former dancer.

Reviews

The magazine Cinema described the film as "a social comedy with slapstick drallem ", the " thickened with romantic kitsch deposits" was. The " stereotypes of the good-hearted bums " were " arg maudlin and the madness of old Brooks films" was " withdrawn in favor of a subtle humor, but real laughter numbers there's also plenty here ."

The lexicon of the International film described the film as "a shallow comedy full of transfiguring social romanticism." The film leads "on mundane, often embarrassing, the urban world of the poor" before. The director put " more on slapstick and sentimental pathos " rather than "on the bite and the insolence ."

Background

The film was shot in Los Angeles and in the Culver Studios in Culver City. He played in the cinemas of the United States an approximately 4.1 million U.S. dollars.

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