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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 02/18/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 32 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Slapstick, Farce

If a comedy is to be made from the plight of the homeless, who have to scrape through their days returning deposit bottles and cleaning car windshields to get their daily bread as the rich get richer and more heartless, it may as well be Mel Brooks' Life Stinks. The trademark Brooks humor dominates this fable about a ruthless billionaire, Goddard Bolt (Mel Brooks), who wants to obliterate a poor section of Los Angeles and build a high-tech commercial center in its place. His only problem is that he owns only half the land needed for the construction, the other half belonging to equally ruthless billionaire Vance Craswell (Jeffrey Tambor), who has his own ideas for the land. The two try to buy each other out until, finally, a deal is struck: Craswell bets that Bolt cannot survive a month on the streets as a homeless man. If Bolt makes it, he gets the property. If he doesn't, Craswell gets it. Bolt agrees and, as a poor man, he begins to feel the pain of being uprooted and alone, even meeting a friendly homeless woman, Molly (Lesley Ann Warren) with whom he forms an attachment. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Mel Brooks - Goddard Bolt
Lesley Ann Warren - Molly
Jeffrey Tambor - Vance Crasswell
Stuart Pankin - Pritchard
Howard Morris - Sailor

The Mel Brooks comedy Life Stinks comes to DVD with a pair of transfers. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and is preferable to the standard full-frame image. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English, French, and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include commentary track recorded by Brooks and his fellow screenwriters, Rudy de Luca and Steve Haberman; a making-of featurette; and the original theatrical trailer. This is a strong release from MGM/UA. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide