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Life Stinks
1991 · Film · 92 min
Directed by Mel Brooks
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.
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That smells of old news.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364187/
By the way, two smells are really distinctive in my experience.
That of dead people (the real ones not the socially dead) after a few days and that of young males, especially when they happen to be the reason for the smell of the former ones.
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In the words of that great old man of filthy humour, Mel Brooks:
Life Stinks
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102303/
Holy Cow!
Life Stinks Trailer! I thought I was the only who remembered that movie!
I enjoyed reading his story -- not the actual sequence of events obviously, but in the telling. It bears some similarities to "The Jerk" and "Life Stinks" but it could be a worthwhile movie (hope I didn't jinx it.)
Some things I might have done differently --
1) Left LA for someplace cheaper once I decided to take the sabbatical.
2) Not have eight children. Four would have been plenty.
As others have pointed out, most who flock to LA to work in entertainment leave without much to show for it except a healthy dose of cynicism.
Life Stinks
The Producers (new one, I haven't watched original)
Pan's Labyrinth - talks about serious issues but adds a fairy tale to shield audience
You Don't Mess with the Zohan - Adam Sandler movie, more silly than usual, but also takes on Middle East conflict with a positive (perhaps American) spin.
Fight Club ... deals with boredom of your average no-direction man, and how he finds a way to occupy himself.
(M) The Vanishing - from 80's not the American version (didn't see American version) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/combined
Overall I like silly movies, I'd list 5 Adam Sandler movies, and add 'The Animal' to them, and watch them any day of the week.
Reminds me of the movie "Life Stinks" with Mel Brooks. Long story short: Mel Brooks plays a billionaire who becomes homeless for 30 days for the purposes of winning a bet. Anyway, he gets into a couple fist fights with an actual homeless man who has delusions that he is J Paul Getty. They fight over who has more money. Funny stuff. Although that scene is pretty ancillary to the plot.
Great movie, too bad few people have ever heard of it.