Shakes the Clown
4.6 /10 1 Votes
37% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Drama Budget 1.4 million USD Language English | 5.5/10 IMDb Initial DVD release June 1993 (Germany) Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Bobcat Goldthwait (Shakes The Clown), (Judy), (Mime Class Instructor), (Lucy), (Dink the Clown), (The Unknown Woman)Similar movies Bill Hicks: Bill Loses it in Chicago , Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-up Comedian , Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA , George Carlin: Back in Town , Bill Hicks: Relentless , Dave Chappelle: HBO Comedy Half-Hour Tagline Loved by children. Desired by women. Adored by bartenders everywhere. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shakes the Clown is a 1991 American black comedy film directed and written by Bobcat Goldthwait, who performs the title role. It also features Julie Brown, Blake Clark, Paul Dooley, Kathy Griffin, Florence Henderson, Tom Kenny, Adam Sandler, Scott Herriott, LaWanda Page, Jack Gallagher, and a cameo by Robin Williams as Mime Jerry (using the pseudonym "Marty Fromage", an homage to an earlier film they worked in together called Tapeheads in which Goldthwait used the pseudonym "Jack Cheese").
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The film is a dark comedy about a birthday-party clown (Goldthwait) in the grip of depression and alcoholism, who is framed for murder. Different communities of clowns, mimes and other performers are depicted as clannish, rivalrous subcultures obsessed with precedence and status. This was Goldthwait's bitter satire of the dysfunctional standup comedy circuit he knew as a performer.
Shakes the clown 1991 trailer
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Reception
Shakes the Clown was not a financial success, earning only about $115,000 in ticket sales against an estimated budget of $1.4 million.
Critical reaction to the movie was mixed: Leonard Maltin gave it his lowest rating, while Betsy Sherman of The Boston Globe called it "the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies". Roger Ebert gave Shakes 2-out-of-4 stars, writing that while some isolated scenes were "very funny" the plot was scattered and the performances often seemed under-rehearsed. As of mid-2011, the movie has a 37% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews.
In an interview with Conan O'Brien, Goldthwait revealed that Martin Scorsese had defended the movie from detractors. When a film critic derided the movie in order to make a point about good and bad movies, Scorsese revealed, "I like Shakes the Clown. Haven't you heard? It's the Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies!"
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