
A backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe -short for Peter Joseph- gets a quick education in grown-up matters like freedom in 1965. The catalyst is an unlikely source - his glamorous, eccentric Aunt Lucille, who escapes from her abusive husband and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.... (Full plot summary below)
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A backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe -short for Peter Joseph- gets a quick education in grown-up matters like freedom in 1965. The catalyst is an unlikely source - his glamorous, eccentric Aunt Lucille, who escapes from her abusive husband and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.
Leave your thoughts about Crazy in Alabama.
| New York PostLou LumenickFunny, eccentric and touchingly just, combining a unique interpretation of the time with an offbeat sense of humor. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongCrazy in Alabama manages to be both sweeping and small, quirky and sincere, and offers Melanie Griffith her best role in years. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceCrazy in Alabama is a genuinely fine, albeit lost-in-time, movie. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezUnusual for a movie directed by an actor, a lot of the supporting performances in Crazy in Alabama are downright bad. |
| Mr. ShowbizKevin MaynardThe pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor. |
| San Francisco ExaminerRon DickerThere are a lot of movies struggling to get out of Crazy in Alabama, and most of them are bad. |
| TNT RoughCutSjohnna McCrayBanderas directs capably enough to keep the film lively. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumTakes a while to arrive at what it has to say, but some of the performances kept me occupied in the meantime. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyThe opposition of the two dramas winds up in gratifyingly moral and philosophical territory. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffBanderas' direction is as unstable as an isotope on Three Mile Island. |