Shakes the Clown

1991

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 49% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 6072 6.1K

alcohol dark comedy clown birthday party liquor alcoholism

Plot summary

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

Bobcat Goldthwait Photo
Bobcat Goldthwait

Top cast

Johnny Silver Photo
Johnny Silver as Clown Tailor
Adam Sandler Photo
Adam Sandler as Dink the Clown
Paul Dooley Photo
Paul Dooley as Owen Cheese
Florence Henderson Photo
Florence Henderson as The Unknown Woman
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
708.96 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 4
1.3 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fopfopfop 7 / 10

This movie needs some love

This movie was written, stars, and was directed by BCG. It is dark, there are drugs, alcohol, and inner demons. But all this is dealt with and lived by people who live 24/7 as clowns and mimes. They have clown bars etc. BCG two other semi well known movies are worlds greatest dad ( robin Williams (plays a mime here)) and God bless america (bill Murray's brother (plays a milkman here)). Those 2 movies are very dark comedies, and this is as well. I think a lot of people didnt get that because of the silly clown premise. It's dark, it's over the top, it's silly, a little raunchy,I think it's great overall. It needs a little 7 star love from others.P s. See spongebob square pants (tom kenny) as a coked out psycho disco clown in this movie as well.
Reviewed by mitchco10 7 / 10

Unique movie...

I've heard this is the " Citizen Kane of alcholic clown movies", and it may be!
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