Video Review

Crazy in Alabama (2000)

Reviewed by Alice King | Mar 31, 2000
EW's GRADE
C

Details Release Date: Mar 28, 2000; Movie Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery and Thriller; With: Lucas Black and Melanie Griffith

Oh those wacky Southerners! Who else would name a kid Peejoe — or run around Hollywood with a dead husband's head in a hatbox? Sub-Mason-Dixon Line ''colorfulness'' goes with the territory in this, Antonio Banderas' directorial debut, but its awkward pairing with a somber (and, alas, simplistic) civil rights tragedy is more jarring to watch than Griffith vamping with a jet-black 'do. C

Originally posted Mar 31, 2000 Published in issue #533 Mar 31, 2000 Order article reprints
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