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Crazy in Alabama

Crazy in Alabama (1999)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 38

Melanie Griffith gets kudos for her performance, but the movie just doesn't seem to come together.

30

Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 14

Melanie Griffith gets kudos for her performance, but the movie just doesn't seem to come together.

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Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter Joseph, lives in a small Alabama town in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He becomes involved with a group of black students protesting the town's racially segregated municipal swimming pool, leading to a protest that explodes into deadly violence. But Peejoe has gotten a crash course in standing your ground and following your own path from his free-spirited

PG-13, 1 hr. 51 min.

Drama, Comedy

Mark Childress

Mar 28, 2000

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Critic Reviews for Crazy in Alabama

All Critics (68) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (39) | DVD (10)

Never has a woman been more lovingly directed by her real-life husband in a Hollywood film.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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It's troubling to watch it stray and ramble as first-time director Antonio Banderas struggles to pull disparate elements together.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle
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As for Griffith, it's the best role she's had since Working Girl.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Newsday
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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The sweetly endearing craziness of Griffith is an effective contrast to the quiet intensity of Black, who was so wonderful in Sling Blade.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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OK, Antonio, you love your wife, but that doesn't mean you have to cast her.

January 4, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Banderas' direction is as unstable as an isotope on Three Mile Island.

May 30, 2003 Full Review | Comment
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Crazy in Alabama is a genuinely fine, albeit lost-in-time, movie.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

A cinematic hash of stale ingredients.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | Comment
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Unusual for a movie directed by an actor, a lot of the supporting performances in Crazy in Alabama are downright bad.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald
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Amazing comic tale about racism, freedom, spousal abuse, and personal growth.

June 19, 2007
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Dean McKenna

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crazy is right

January 25, 2007
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danny d

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