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Crazy in Alabama

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 27 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 2 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Mark Childress (also novel)
Directed by: Antonio Banderas
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 22, 1999
DVD: March 28, 2000
Running Time: 111 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some violence, thematic material, language and a scene of sensuality
Starring Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, and Rod Steiger
Two unusual stories meet and intertwine in Crazy in Alabama, a poignant and captivating comedy-drama set in Los Angeles and the Deep South during the height of the civil rights era. (Columbia Tristar)
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What The Critics Said
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New York Post Lou Lumenick
Risks trivializing history and pandering to feminist fantasies, but it may be the year's most fearless movie.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
Funny, eccentric and touchingly just, combining a unique interpretation of the time with an offbeat sense of humor.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Banderas may have been crazy to make such a heady directorial debut, but it's hard not to be charmed by his ambitions.
Boston Globe Jay Carr
The pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
The opposition of the two dramas winds up in gratifyingly moral and philosophical territory.
Read Full Review >TNT RoughCut Sjohnna McCray
Banderas has taken a brilliant novel and made a small movie with lots of bright moments, and honestly, that's quite an accomplishment for his debut.
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Takes a while to arrive at what it has to say, but some of the performances kept me occupied in the meantime.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Banderas directs capably enough to keep the film lively.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
It's troubling to watch it stray and ramble as first-time director Antonio Banderas struggles to pull disparate elements together.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
An ungainly fit of three stories that have no business being shoehorned into the same movie.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Banderas' direction is a bit of everything and a lot of not much.
Film.com John Hartl
An Almodovar-like blend of laughs, drama and uplift, filled with the kinds of pop-art colors and pop-out performances that Almodovar loves.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Inadvertently does with the civil rights movement exactly what Banderas set out not to do: trivializes it.
USA Today Mike Clark
Were some group to launch a rival to the Oscars called The Wackys, it could do worse than make crazed Crazy its first recipient.
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Tries with intermittent success to juggle two stories.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Feels like two films that aren't closely related enough, either tonally or narratively, to warrant their intertwining.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Steve Davis
There's much to enjoy here as long as your expectations aren't too high.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Somehow, Lucille's plight is meant to comment astutely on the civil-rights movement. Now that IS crazy.
LA Weekly Nicole Campos
The two disparate yet thematically linked storylines are far too faithfully transposed for a feature-length treatment -- crammed together, they're denied the space to flesh out as a cohesive whole.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams
Disappoints with its simplistic, hollow narrative and characters.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
The juxtaposition of grim reality and pure fantasy doesn't work...the entire film seem artificial and contrived.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Steve Daly
As campy as a flick by Banderas' evident artistic mentor, Pedro Almódovar.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
(Griffith's) appearance often verges on the grotesque. Which, come to think of it, could be said of the movie as well.
Read Full Review >Film.com Moira Macdonald
Appears to be several different movies spliced together, with unfortunate results.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
Mark Childress, who wrote the screenplay based upon his book of the same name, would have been better off leaving this Southern Gothic between two covers.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
Although Banderas occasionally shows flashes of style, individual elements too often go together like grits in a puff pastry.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dana L. gave it a 10:
I love this movie.
Kevin W. gave it a 10:
One of the great underrated films of the 1990s. Check it out! Funny, moving, and unlike any other movie.
