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Crazy in Alabama (1999)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:6

Rotten:13

Average Rating:4.8/10

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

Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
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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.

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Campy as a flick by Banderas' evident artistic mentor, Pedro Almódovar.

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Despite some rough intertwining, Crazy is an impressive directing debut from Banderas.

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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.

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Stylistically uneven.

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James Berardinelli
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Banderas directs capably enough to keep the film lively.

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Janet Maslin
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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
Boston Globe
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Crazy in Alabama needs to have been unified by a strong vision and style, and a shrewd, distinctive sense of humor.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
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Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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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.

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Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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A key problem is that the Lucille storyline just doesn't work.

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Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Too many scenes feel excessively underscored, either by Mark Snow's sentimental music, or by characters commenting on the action.

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Moira MacDonald
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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.

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Peter Stack
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San Francisco Chronicle
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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
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Chicago Sun-Times
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As for Griffith, it's the best role she's had since Working Girl.

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Steve Murray
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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
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Detroit Free Press
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The director has assembled some good thesps and handles them well.

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Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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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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