Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Howard Morris, Rudy De Luca, Teddy Wilson, Michael Ensign, Matthew Faison, Billy Barty,...
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.
AMAZON.COM REVIEWS FOR LIFE STINKS (1991): Life stinks--and if by "life" you mean this movie, then hereindeed is truth in advertising. Mel Brooks totally missed the boat withthis attempt at a comedy about life in the greedy Reagan years. He playsa heartless tycoon who bets that he could easily survive for a month onthe streets of L.A. without a penny to his name, and then gets tricked outof his fortune. He winds up learning how the other half lives and itisn't funny. Literally. Watching this film, it's hard to believe it wasmade by the same man who wrote and directed The Producers. What doesit tell you that this film was loved in France? --Marshall Fine