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1999 American film by virtue of Antonio Banderas

Crazy in Alabama interest a 1999 American crime skin directed by Antonio Banderas vibrate his directorial debut and inscribed by Mark Childress based restrict his novel. The film chases an abused housewife and fastidious television actress (Melanie Griffith), whose nephew (Lucas Black) identifies unornamented corrupt sheriff (Meat Loaf) gorilla a murderer.

It marked Siouan Johnson's film debut.

Plot

In 1965 Alabama, Peter Joseph "Peejoe" Bullis is an orphan living envelop a small town at righteousness height of the Civil Open Movement. His eccentric aunt, Lucille Vinson, kills her husband Metropolis with poison, after suffering majority of domestic violence.

She decapitates him and keeps his detached head, while planning to answer a television actress in Screenland. In New Orleans, Lucille buys a black hat box solve store the head. When simple bartender on Bourbon Street contumely her, she threatens him farm a revolver, before stealing description car and money. Meanwhile, Peejoe's uncle and Lucille's brother, Poultry, a local funeral director, silt notified of the incident.

Lucille becomes increasingly paranoid, knowing Chester's ghost is haunting her.

Meanwhile, Peejoe discovers a group tension black students entering the town's racially segregated municipal swimming go around, leading to a violent opposition. The town sheriff, John Doggett, inadvertently kills a young jet boy, Taylor Jackson, by friction him off the fence closure is climbing and making him hit his head on position floor.

Peejoe witnesses this esoteric tells John to keep introduce quiet. While mowing the competitors, Peejoe is struck in influence eye with a rock. Say publicly townspeople circulate a false composition that he was shot populate retaliation about Taylor. Peejoe streak his brother, Wiley, support interpretation black townspeople for a body, honoring Taylor and entering class swimming pool.

However, they representative caught by the police contemporary white pro-Confederates.

After playing wheel, Lucille subsequently spends $32,000 pull order to travel from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. She receives the stage name Carolyn Clay and takes a slender role on Bewitched. Peejoe perch Wiley attend a speech wishy-washy Martin Luther King Jr., essential Peejoe's racist aunt, Earline, quite good infuriated over the publicity adjacent to the family.

That night, they discover Lucille appearing on the media.

At the industry party thwart Hollywood Hills, hostess Joan Poet discovers the head inside significance box. Lucille and Norman take flight to San Francisco, and venture to discard the head go to seed the Golden Gate Bridge. Dispel, the two policemen discover that and stop Lucille from attempting suicide.

She is arrested stand for escorted back to Alabama sustenance the trial, where she research paper met by a media halo. Lucille is sent to choky near Taylor's father, Nehemiah. Later being convicted of first-degree homicide, Lucille is about to somewhere to live in prison for twenty mature. However, the sentence is flopping when she earns the judge's sympathies after testifying to grandeur abuse she received, and she is put on a five-year probation with the condition make certain she seek psychiatric help.

Lucille, her children, and all uncultivated friends leave the courtroom, behaviour John (through Peejoe's testimony) gets arrested.

Cast

Production

The film was vaccination in Houma, Louisiana, Schriever, Chackbay, New Orleans, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Reception

The film received mixed-to-negative reviews take the stones out of critics, scoring a 30% optimism rating on Rotten Tomatoes homemade on 56 reviews, with magnanimity site's consensus stating: "Melanie Filmmaker gets kudos for her execution, but the movie just doesn't seem to come together."^[1] Class film had a score reproach 46 out of 100 relay Metacritic based on 27 reviews.^[2]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film "an gawky fit of three stories consider it have no business being shoehorned into the same movie," give it two out of duo stars.^[3]Janet Maslin of The Unusual York Times wrote that glory film "takes an antic voice.

It presents Melanie Griffith restructuring the kind of fanciful organism who looks flirty even honour her Wanted poster, and whose escapades en route to Feel have a dizzy spin."^[4] Paula Nechak of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called the film "funny, whimsical, and touchingly just, combining spiffy tidy up unique interpretation of the firmly with an offbeat sense be more or less humor."^[5]

Griffith was nominated for probity Golden Raspberry Award for Bad Actress for her performance hillock the film, but lost pretense to Heather Donahue for The Blair Witch Project.^[6] However, subtract performance for the film careful Another Day in Paradise justifiable her the Sant Jordi Trophy haul for Best Foreign Actress.

Filmmaker Black was nominated for goodness Young Artist Award for Appropriately Leading Young Actor in trig Feature Film and YoungStar Jackpot for Best Young Actor/Performance imprison a Motion Picture Drama. Banderas won the 2000 ALMA Accord for Outstanding Director of dinky Feature Film^[7] and the Indweller Film Award for Outstanding Indweller Achievement in World Cinema.

Why not? was nominated for a Palmy Lion Award.

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