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Bookmark this pageFunny Bones (1994)
Director: Peter Chelsom
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Writer/director Chelsom's follow-up to Hear My Song throws plenty of comic ideas around, but only one or two stick. Platt stars as Tommy Fawkes, a stand-up comic overshadowed by his father (Lewis), whose Las Vegas show falls so flat he takes off to relearn his trade - in Blackpool. There he comes across Jack Parker (Evans), a natural-born comedian with a talent so pure it's positively dangerous. This paternalistic yarn inhabits a curiously nostalgic neverland where sentimental whimsy and showbiz escapism ultimately drown out acute psychological trauma. Evans is okay in his cinema debut, but his role seems to have been emasculated in large-scale cuts which play havoc with what was evidently an undeveloped script (it still runs over two hours). What any of this has to do with Oliver Reed, French smugglers and an ancient immortality drug we may never know.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Chelsom
Producer: Simon Fields, Peter Chelsom
Cast: Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, Lee Evans, Leslie Caron, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Reed, Ian McNeice, Gavin Millar, Terence Rigby full cast
Duration: 126 mins
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