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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 all over the world. Lewis plays a hapless misfit who seeks psychiatric help after bumbling a suicide attempt. His sessions with a shrink reveal a flashback history about a klutzy childhood and a family history of (what else?) ineptitude, affording Lewis the chance to play 10 various roles, including a 6-year-old boy, a 15th-century coachman, a southern sheriff and a bearded guru. The wackiness soars to new heights when our nutcase patient takes a transcontinental flight on the cheapest airline he can find. But there's no scrimping on the laughter. After all, Lewis has been making funny films since 1949, writing, producing and/or directing most of them. And Cracking Up is zany proof that nobody does it better. Program Content © 1982 Orgolini-Nelson Productions Artwork & Photography © 1982 Warner Bros. Inc. Package Design © 1984 Warner Home Video Inc. All rights reserved. A Warner Communications Company, 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, CA 91522