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Hardly Working Reviews

  • 1981
  • 1 hr 31 mins
  • Comedy
  • PG
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Jerry Lewis directed and stars as a clown seeking a job. Susan Oliver, Roger C. Carmel. Millie: Deanna Lund. Loucazi: Harold J. Stone. Torres: Steve Franken. Claude: Buddy Lester. Hit-or-miss humor.

Making a comeback after 10 years away from the screen in this bad movie, Jerry Lewis brings little that is new to his inspired/insipid (depending on your perspective) juvenile antics. Here he portrays Bo Hooper, an unemployed clown who lives with his sister (Susan Oliver). She gets him a series of jobs, all of which he bungles, then he inexplicably gets serious and holds forth on the foibles of mankind. With a tired, contrived script overmugged by its star, HARDLY WORKING hardly works.