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Crazy Mama

1975, Movie, PG, 82 mins

Crazy Mama: Review

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This mindless, thoroughly tasteless violence film begins in 1932 when police shoot Leachman's criminal father to death and drive her and her mother off their sharecropping farm in Jerusalem, Arkansas. A flash-forward finds the two females being kicked out of their sleazy beauty parlor in Long Beach, California, for failing to pay rent. Leachman collects mother Sothern and daughter Purl, and they embark on a nationwide crime spree, shooting and looting at will. They pick up Whitman, a bigamist sheriff who aids them in their crimes and later sets up a phony kidnaping that goes awry; he gets shot. Earle, an 82-year-old woman who has been cleaned out by Las Vegas slot machines, joins up with the weird lot. There is not one scene worth viewing in this odious garbage bag. The dialog is written for cretins, and it seeps foul language with every other word. Every character--including Sterling, Sothern's real-life daughter who plays her mother as a girl--acts like a pack of savages, practicing sadism and loveless sex at every opportunity. Leachman, Sothern, and Whitman should have changed their names for this monstrosity that will not fail to offend anyone human. It's amazing that director Demme could turn out this misshappen abortion and later make such an affecting film as MELVIN AND HOWARD. leave a comment
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