Rotten
Basically a redneck drive-in movie in style and delivery.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Shakes the Clown
Loved by children. Desired by women. Adored by bartenders everywhere.
1991 · 1h 27m · R
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Directed by
Bobcat Goldthwait
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Shakes the Clown
Overview
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.
Director and cast
- Bobcat Goldthwait Director
- Bobcat Goldthwait as Shakes The Clown
- Julie Brown as Judy
- Adam Sandler as Dink the Clown
- Blake Clark as Stenchy the Clown
- Tom Kenny as Binky the Clown
- Paul Dooley as Owen Cheese
- Kathy Griffin as Lucy
- Robin Williams as Mime Class Instructor
- LaWanda Page as Female Clown Barfly
- Martin Charles Warner as Male Clown Barfly
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
43%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie plays like a series of scene outlines -- ideas for how the movie should progress -- that needed more writing and revision before the actors were called in.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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