Hardly Working

United States

1980

91 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Igo Kantor, James J. McNamara

SCR Michael Janover, Jerry Lewis

CAST Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Roger C. Carmel

Synopsis

In Jerry Lewis’s first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can’t seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman – all with disastrous results. Teriffic supporting cast including Susan Oliver, Roger C. Carmel, Deanna Lund, Harold J. Stone, Steve Franken, Buddy Lester and Billy Barty. —IMDb

Director

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, and recording and is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis has won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and The Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2005, he received the Governors Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors, which is the highest Emmy Award presented.

On February 22, 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Lewis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. As an innovative filmmaker, Lewis is credited with inventing the video assist system in cinematography (some doubt now exists about this, due to… read more

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Greg S.

6May12

Like Lewis' 'Gran Torino'. Lewis seems conscious that his best years may be behind him and there is a sort of vulnerability with the repercussions of even the craziest gags and the plot concerning a clown out of work makes the parallel more apparent. Even the film's style give it a colder feel emphasizing suburbia as a sort of trap for a larger than life character like Jerry. Must see.