Shakes the Clown

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.

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 2outof4 stars, writing that while some isolated scenes were very funny the plot was scattered and the performances often seemed underrehearsed. As of mid2011, the movie has arating on Rotten Tomatoes, based onreviews. ........

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