Cracking Up (MOD)

Cracking Up (MOD)Cracking Up is a crazy quilt of sight gags, one liners, caricatures, slapstick and quirky vocal mannerisms. In short, it's marvelous mayhem of the kind which has gained Jerry Lewis admirers the world over. Lewis plays a hapless misfit who seeks psychiatric help after bumbling a suicide attempt. His shrink sessions reveal a flashback history about a klutzy childhood and a family history of (what else?) ineptitude, affording Lewis to play a smorgasbord

hasn't she

Once nearly forgotten

This bedazzlement of tapping feet and aching hearts (Love loves King

operators of the carny's penny arcade

Or any of the identities she takes on during her spree of stealing cars

Young Bess reigns

to jog the inmate's memory

whose many credits include the cult favorites White Line Fever and Over the Edge (featuring Kaplan's discovery

Mark Hamill (Star Wars movies) stars as Kenny

and how she gradually came to side with conspiracy theorists that the truth still remains hidden

candidate Lois Lee is there too

Although he's tangled up with booze