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Funny Bones

[1994, Movie]

Funny Bones: Review

Dedicated to the premise that comedy isn't funny -- except when it is -- FUNNY BONES follows the dark, sentimental journey of failed comedian Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt). The son of world-famous funny man George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), Tommy bombs in Vegas and flees to the down-at-the-heels English seaside resort of Blackpool, where he spent an early childhood he remembers as idyllic. Needless to say, it's teeming with grim secrets -- including Tommy's half brother, Jack (Lee Evans), a natural if somewhat scary comic -- that lead Tommy to a series of revelations about his father and himself. FUNNY BONES is a tightrope act of the first order, always teetering between black humor and out-and-out bleakness. As with the bumblebee, all the evidence proves it can't fly -- but somehow it does.

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Year: 1994
Rated R

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Oliver Platt: Tommy Fawkes
Jerry Lewis: George Fawkes
Lee Evans: Jack Parker
Leslie Caron: Katie Parker
Richard Griffiths: Jim Minty
Oliver Reed: Dolly Hopkins

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