Life Stinks

Life Stinks (1991)

Timing: 1:32 (92 min)

5.5/10
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Release date

1991-06-05

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Brooksfilms

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$2 147 483 647

Revenue

$2 147 483 647

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Director

Mel Brooks

Actors

Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Michael Ensign, Howard Morris, Matthew Faison, Rudy De Luca, Teddy Wilson, Stanley Brock
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Scenario

Producer

Mel Brooks, Ezra Swerdlow

Operator

Steven Poster

Composer

John Morris

Artist

Audition

Bill Shepard, Todd M. Thaler

Editing

Michael Mulconery, David Rawlins, Anthony Redman
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• The film was a box office failure and sparked a storm of criticism from both audiences and critics.
• The sounds of excavators in the film were passed off as the roar of King Kong from the 1976 film of the same name directed by John Guillermin.
• Whoopi Goldberg was considered for the role of Molly at one point, but the director and lead actor Mel Brooks thought he would not be able to convincingly play her partner, and Leslie Ann Warren was cast as Molly instead.
• When Howard Morris's character (1919-2005) dies, his friends cremate his body and scatter the ashes to the wind. A gust of wind blows the ashes back onto the participants of the funeral, and they have to brush them off. According to Mel Brooks, this actually happened to Morris when he was scattering his father's ashes.