Watch Shakes the Clown (1992) Free Online

Release Date: 1992

Cast: Florence Henderson, Julie Brown, Jack Gallagher, Blake Clark, Tom Kenny, Paul Dooley, Adam Sandler, Bobcat Goldthwait, Robin Williams, Kathy Griffin

Categories: Movies, Absurdism, Action, Comedy, Cult, Black Comedy

Shakes the Clown is a 1992 American movie 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"). The movie is a dark comedy about a birthday-party clown (Goldthwait) in the grip of depression and alcoholism,... MORE

Shakes the Clown is a 1992 American movie 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"). The movie 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 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 decidedly 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 LESS