Funny Bones
Sep 20, 1995 | IMDB 6.5
128 min Watch NowComedy
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
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