Crazy in Alabama (1999)
32 %
Reviews Counted: 53 Fresh: 17 Rotten:36 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus:
Melanie Griffith gets kudos for her performance, but the movie just doesn't seem to come together.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Synopsis: Banderas' directorial debut has enough plots for two movies. In one, crazy Lucille (Griffith) chops off her husband's head and flees to Hollywood to become a star. In another, a small black boy, Taylor Jackson (Miller), is the victim of brutally vicious racism, sparking a heated civil rights... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Louis Miller, John Beasley
Director: Antonio Banderas
Screenwriter: Mark Childress
Producer: Meir Teper, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Debra Hill
Composer: Mark Snow
Screenwriter: Mark Childress
Producer: Meir Teper, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Debra Hill
Composer: Mark Snow
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02/09/06
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Banderas' direction is as unstable as an isotope on Three Mile Island.
05/30/03
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01/09/02
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Watching Crazy in Alabama is like dating someone with a split personality, each side of which is competing jealously for your attention.
01/01/00
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Despite some rough intertwining, Crazy is an impressive directing debut from Banderas.
01/01/00
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Mr. Banderas fills his movie with lots of overbearingly stylized imagery. The results are something like a big-budget student film.
01/01/00
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Banderas has taken a brilliant novel and made a small movie with lots of bright moments.
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