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Funny Bones (1994)
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Funny Bones, directed by Peter Chelsom (Hear My Song), is a weird but intriguing comedy with a particularly dark edge. Oliver Platt plays a would-be comedian, the son of a major comedy star (Jerry Lewis); Dad's reputation even overshadows his son's Las Vegas debut. After that flop the son tries to go back to his roots and heads for his father's launch pad in Blackpool, England. There, he meets his previously unknown half-brother (Lee Evans), a bizarre comedy savant who teaches him a thing or two about taking risks to get laughs, and discovers a secret about how his father got started. Platt is likably lost and Lewis is...
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Lee Evans gives one of the greatest modern slaptick performances in this black comedy about generations of comedy performers with dirty family secrets.
Oliver Platt plays the son of a famed comedian (Jerry Lewis) who suffers from lack-of-funny and thus goes to Blackpool, England, where his father once went to be inspired...
(complete Funny Bones review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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