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Life Stinks
MEANRANK
53/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 25, highest is Kinopoisk on 70. Critics average 40, everyone else 59.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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. Still, he finds a silver lining in a burgeoning romance with Molly, a former Broadway dancer who has fallen on hard times.
Details
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Writers
- Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Steve Haberman
- Released
- 5 June 1991
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $4.1M
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