Affluent and arrogant businessman bets a corporate rival that he has the wits and street smarts to live penniless and anonymous on the rough streets of Los Angeles for 30 days, which proves to be tougher than he thought.
October 3, 1927
23 January 1934, New York City, New York, USA
22 March 1923, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
4 October 1960, Lima, Ohio, USA
10 December 1943, New York City, New York, USA
16 September 1922, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
19 December 1917, Tucumcari, New Mexico, USA
8 July 1944, San Francisco, California, USA
6 November 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 April 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 November 1951, New York City, New York, USA
20 April 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 April 1941, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
10 May 1954, Tacoma, Washington, USA
14 October 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 July 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
January 01, 2000
About 90% of the jokes elicit blank, polite stares, not laughs. The film is as raggedy and forlorn as its hero.
July 14, 2004
The slapstick here is nothing to rent the film over. Oddly, it's the serious moments that charm. I was embarrassed to myself for being choked up by Mel Brooks.
August 14, 2003
So pretty much does this Brooks misfire.
February 15, 2007
A slapstick vaudeville about the poor and homeless? Inadvertently Mel Brooks gives the dangerous impression that homelessness is cute and that Downtown LA is filled with adorable and eccentric people who "just happen" to be roofless.
February 13, 2003
This was supposed to be Brooks's comical stab at social injustice, a kind of My Man Godfrey for the nineties, but it doesn't work.
October 19, 2004
Lesser Mel Brooks has some funny bits if homelessness is funny at all
February 05, 2003
Good message, bad comedy.
