Funny Bones

“Comedy. It's in the timing. It's in the material. But mostly, it's in the bones.”

Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) wants to be a successful comedian, and his Las Vegas debut goes badly enough to send him home to Blackpool, where his father George (Jerry Lewis) started out and where Tommy spent his childhood summers. Peter Chelsom sets him among the seaside acts and local performers, including Jack Parker (Lee Evans) and Katie Parker (Leslie Caron). Tommy came looking for new material, but the Fawkes name carries more weight in that town than he knew.