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Crazy in Alabama (1999)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:17
Rotten:37
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Melanie Griffith gets kudos for her performance, but the movie just doesn't seem to come together.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Dramas
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,... 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 battle. All of this is seen through the eyes of Peejoe (Black), a young boy who recounts the events with a nostalgic memory, bringing all of the various subplots together. [More]
Starring: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Louis Miller
Starring: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Louis Miller, John Beasley, Rod Steiger, Paul Mazursky, Robert Wagner, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Richard Schiff, Noah Emmerich
Director: Antonio Banderas
Director: Antonio Banderas
Screenwriter: Mark Childress
Producer: Meir Teper, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Debra Hill
Composer: Mark Snow
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Reviews for Crazy in Alabama
Never has a woman been more lovingly directed by her real-life husband in a Hollywood film.
[Rod Steiger] is the only man I know who can overact while his character is asleep.
Crazy in Alabama is an ungainly fit of three stories that have no business being shoehorned into the same movie.
Mr. Banderas fills his movie with lots of overbearingly stylized imagery. The results are something like a big-budget student film.
Because the civil rights sections are somber and serious and the Lucille sections exaggerated and giddy, Crazy in Alabama never finds any cohesive tone.
Crazy in Alabama manages to be both sweeping and small, quirky and sincere, and offers Melanie Griffith her best role in years.
Banderas proves that you can successfully make a film that doesn't relate directly to you, simply if the underlying themes are felt deeply enough.
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