Crazy Mama (1975)
- Starring:
- Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jonathan Demme
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) into a bitter widow. Mother and daughter take off to Long Beach, California, and the time jumps to 1958, when the two are thrown out of their beauty salon for non-payment of back rent. Melba now has an attractive (and pregnant) teenage daughter Cheryl (Linda Purl). The three generations take to the road, stealing cars and creating general mayhem across the United States, robbing a motorcycle racetrack box office and a bank. But in 1959, Melba and Cheryl are picked up again, running a Miami Beach snack bar, their lives wasted in free-living terror. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 81 mins
Complete Cast:
- Cloris Leachman - Melba
- Ann Sothern - Sheba
- Jim Backus - Mr. Albertson
- Linda Purl - Cheryl
- Sally Kirkland - Ella Mae
- Vince Barnett - Homer
- Charles Beach Dickerson - Desk Clerk
- Harry Northrup - FBI Man
- Mickey Fox - Mrs. Morgan
- Warren Miller - Justice of the Peace
- Barbara Walters - Lady Teller
- Dick Miller - Wilbur Janeway
- Ralph James - Sheriff, 1932
- Carmen Argenziano - Supermarket Manager
- Stuart Whitman - Jim Bob
- Tisha Sterling - Sheba-1932
- Don Most - Shawn
- Merie Earle - Bertha
- Clint Kimbrough - Daniel
- John Aprea - Marvin
- Dinah Englund - Melba, 1932
- Hal Marshall - Bartender
- Robert Reece - Mover
- Saul Krugman - Col. Snodgrass
- Bill Paxton - John
- Bill McLean - Bank Manager
- Bryan Englund - Snake
- Director(s):
- Jonathan Demme
- Writer(s):
- Robert Thom
- Producer(s):
- Julie Corman, Roger Corman
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Not For Children, Adult Language, Violence, Adult Situations)
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