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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767837996
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767837991
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 04, 2000
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 24556
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1992
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A hysterical movie about an alcoholic clown. Special features: widescreen version 2-channel dolby surround languages: english and spanish subtitles in english and spanish production notes theatrical trailers talent files scene selections and digitally mastered audio and anamorphic video. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Bobcat Goldthwait Julie Brown Run time: 87 minutes Rating: R
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not a good movie
This movie is very strange and very low budget. There are "clown" bars, you can't follow where it's going.
Rating: - More Fun than a Car Full of Clowns
I saw this movie on VHS years ago and enjoyed it. I finally got the DVD and found that I love it even more now. The acting is definitely sub-par (overall), but the movie is original and genuinely funny throughout. I'm not really sure if Goldthwait was trying for poignant (if he was, he missed, albeit slightly), but there is something darkly funny about a clown society, stratified into social layers (rodeo clowns are the toughest, mimes--who are admittedly non-clowns--are the wimpiest, and party clowns ... Read More
Rating:  - Right Up My Rat-Infested, Garbage-Strewn Alley
A review quoted on the VHS box calls "Shakes" "the 'Citizen Kane' of alcoholic clown movies." With a rave like that, how can you go wrong, particularly if you're the type of person who loves coarse, scatological, and downright juvenile humor (as I unashamedly do)? Bobcat Goldthwaite turns in a bravura performance (he should, he wrote the screenplay) as a second-rate, besotted "party clown" with an attitude. When he's wrongfully framed for the murder of a promoter by his evil, clown rival, Binky, Shakes ... Read More
Rating: - Shaky at Best
Two stars because there's some good stuff in here. What a shame not to capitalize on such a brilliant opportunity for comedy. Some of the good gags show the potential for what could have been one of the funniest movies ever made. This concept is so fertile that the producers should have hired a team of writers to support Bobcat's script. Too bad, Bobcat could have knocked it out of the park with this one. One viewing is enough for me. Even so, there are scenes I'll never forget. Worth the effort of re-make. ... Read More
Rating: - How to love a drunken clown
One of my favorite movies on Laser disk starred Bobcat Goldthwait and Julie Brown, with an un-credited appearance by Robin Williams. Finally, Shakes the Clown is available on DVD. I was disappointed with the deleted scenes, and lack of 5.1 surround sound; but still, from the opening scene of a boy pissing on Shakes' face, to the final pandemonium in the television studio, Shakes the Clown is a funny, sometimes outstanding, look at the world of, well, drunken clowns! My favorite part has to do with the intense ... Read More
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