Watch Crazy in Alabama (1999) Free Online

Release Date: 1999

Cast: Robert Wagner, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Elizabeth Perkins, Rod Steiger, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hart, Paul Ben-Victor, Lucas Black, Richard Schiff, David Morse, Paul Mazursky ...MORE

Cast: Robert Wagner, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Elizabeth Perkins, Rod Steiger, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hart, Paul Ben-Victor, Lucas Black, Richard Schiff, David Morse, Paul Mazursky, Noah Emmerich, Brad Beyer, John Beasley ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Period Piece, Crime Fiction, Comedy-Drama, Coming Of Age, Social Problem Film, Comedy, Drama Film, Courtroom Drama

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. 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... MORE

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. 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. The young black boy, Taylor Jackson, is killed by the town sheriff; and Peejoe, the only witness, is pressured by the sheriff to keep it quiet. 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 is headed for Hollywood, where she is convinced that television stardom awaits her. Lucille takes her husband's head everywhere she goes in a black hat box (in the film; lettuce crisper in the book), and looks forward to the future LESS