# Please help me identify this movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 30, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-movie/204625 "2003-09-30T03:19:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-movie/204625/1 "2003-09-30T03:19:35Z")

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Alright, the movie was about a clown. Or a man that had to become a clown, something like that. Anyway, I can’t remember the plot or too many specific stuff, so please bear with me.

Okay, one scene had him asleep, or passed out, and him throwing up while sleeping. In another, he and a couple clown friends were beating up on mimes. Then in another, he was playing hide and seek with the kids, and while the kids were hiding, he searched for booze. I can’t remember any lines (except when the mimes yell “CLOWNS!”, or was it the clowns yelling “MIMES!”).

This, along with It the clown and Killer Clowns from Outer Space, had given me a big fear of clowns when I was younger.

Again, sorry for the detaillessness of it, anyone know what movie I’m talking about?

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**Author:** ![MrSarcasticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MrSarcasticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSarcasticus)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-movie/204625/2 "2003-09-30T03:38:58Z")

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SHAKES THE CLOWN, the Citizen Kane of drunken clown films.

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**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-movie/204625/3 "2003-09-30T03:39:29Z")

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_Shakes the Clown_?

[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102898/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102898/)

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**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-movie/204625/4 "2003-09-30T03:42:37Z")

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I think it is that movie, thank you. I think I might go rent it.