Life Stinks

Life Stinks (1991) is a Mel Brooks comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Brooks plays Goddard Bolt, an arrogant billionaire who bets his real-estate rival Vance Crasswell — played by Jeffrey Tambor — that he can survive thirty days on the streets of Los Angeles without a cent, a phone call, or a safety net.

Reality lands fast and hard. Bolt goes from penthouse boardrooms to dumpster-diving in the space of a single afternoon. Out on the rough side of LA he meets Molly, a former Broadway dancer played by Lesley Ann Warren, who has her own reasons for being there. Crasswell, watching from a distance, does everything he can to make sure Bolt breaks before the deadline.

Brooks uses the fish-out-of-water setup to poke holes in the American myth of self-made success — but keeps it a slapstick comedy rather than a lecture. Stream Life Stinks (1991) online on iFILM.