Crazy in Alabama
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| Crazy in Alabama | |
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| Directed by | Antonio Banderas |
| Produced by | Debra Hill |
| Written by | Mark Childress |
| Starring | Melanie Griffith David Morse Lucas Black Cathy Moriarty Meat Loaf |
| Music by | Mark Snow |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 22, 1999 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15,000,000 (est.) |
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Crazy in Alabama is a 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Antonio Banderas, written by Mark Childress (based on his own 1993 novel of the same name), and starring Melanie Griffith as an abused wife who heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
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[edit] Plot summary
In 1965, Peter Joseph Bullis (also known as Peejoe) lives in a small town in Alabama, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. He becomes involved with a group of black students protesting the town's racially segregated municipal swimming pool, leading to a protest that explodes into deadly violence. But Peejoe has gotten a crash course in standing your ground and following your path from his free-spirited aunt Lucille Vinson, who has killed her abusive husband and his headed for Hollywood, where she is convinced that television stardom awaits her.
[edit] Trivia
- Tagline: Sometimes you have to lose your mind to find your freedom.
- Two of Lucille's children are played by Melanie Griffith's real-life children: Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas.
- The film was shot on location in Los Angeles, California and Houma, Louisiana.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Melanie Griffith | Lucille Vinson |
| David Morse | Dove Bullis |
| Lucas Black | Peter Joseph Bullis |
| Cathy Moriarty | Earlene Bullis |
| Meat Loaf | Sheriff John Doggett |
| Rod Steiger | Judge Louis Mead |
| Richard Schiff | Norman |
| John Beasley | Nehemian Jackson |
| Robert Wagner | Harry Hall |
| Noah Emmerich | Sheriff Raymond |
| Paul Ben-Victor | D.A. Mackie |
| Brad Beyer | Jack |
| Fannie Flagg | Sally |
| Elizabeth Perkins | Joan Blake |
| Linda Hart | Madelyn |
| Paul Mazursky | Walter Schwegmann |
| Holmes Osborne | Attorney Larry Russell |
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