Crazy in Alabama
- Original title
- Crazy in Alabama
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 104 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Melanie Griffith
- David Morse
- Lucas Black
- Cathy Moriarty
- Meat Loaf
- Rod Steiger
- Richard Schiff
- John Beasley
- Sandra Seacat
- Robert Wagner
- Holmes Osborne
- Paul Mazursky
- Dakota Johnson
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Comedy | Racism. Crime. Comedy-Drama. Southern Gothic
- Synopsis
- Based on the novel by Mark Childress, the film takes place in the summer of 1965, and centres on an Alabama boy named Peejoe living in racially divided times. He gets a fast education in grown-up matters like freedom from the most unlikely of sourceshis glamorous, eccentric and abused Aunt Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who escapes from her husband's clutches and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.
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- Awards
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1999: Nominated for Razzie Awards: Worst Actress (Melanie Griffith)1999: Venice Film Festival: nominated to Golden Lion - Best Picture.2000: Sant Jordi Awards: Best International Actress.
- Critics' reviews
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"Risks trivializing history and pandering to feminist fantasies, but it may be the year's most fearless movie."
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"There's much to enjoy here as long as your expectations aren't too high"
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"The pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor."
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"Inadvertently does with the civil rights movement exactly what Banderas set out not to do: trivializes it."
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"The juxtaposition of grim reality and pure fantasy doesn't work...the entire film seem artificial and contrived."
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"The opposition of the two dramas winds up in gratifyingly moral and philosophical territory"
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"Although Banderas occasionally shows flashes of style, individual elements too often go together like grits in a puff pastry"
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