Shakes The Clown (1992 Future Cult Classic)

The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1992 features our future cult classic pick, Bobcat Goldthwait’s Shakes the Clown. Written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Tom Kenny, Blake Clark and Adam Sandler, Shakes the Clown was a critical and commercial failure that has since been reappraised and appreciated by a cult audience.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/shakes-the-clown-1992), Marc Savlov in the Austin Chronicle (https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/1992-04-24/138820/), and Chris Hicks in the Deseret News (https://www.deseret.com/1992/7/24/18996089/shake-any-impulse-to-go-see-tasteless-shakes-the-clown).

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