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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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Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

As for Griffith, it's the best role she's had since Working Girl.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
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Steve Murray
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
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Never has a woman been more lovingly directed by her real-life husband in a Hollywood film.

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Jay Carr
Jay Carr
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Boxoffice Magazine

[Rod Steiger] is the only man I know who can overact while his character is asleep.

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Lawrence Toppman
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

Crazy in Alabama is an ungainly fit of three stories that have no business being shoehorned into the same movie.

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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A key problem is that the Lucille storyline just doesn't work.

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Mark Caro
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Madeleine Williams
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culturevulture.net

Mr. Banderas fills his movie with lots of overbearingly stylized imagery. The results are something like a big-budget student film.

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Dallas Morning News

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

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
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Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Because the civil rights sections are somber and serious and the Lucille sections exaggerated and giddy, Crazy in Alabama never finds any cohesive tone.

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Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Crazy in Alabama manages to be both sweeping and small, quirky and sincere, and offers Melanie Griffith her best role in years.

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Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

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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Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
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The movie lacks in emotional coherence.

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