Louis Miller Movies
Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter Joseph, lives in a small Alabama town in 1965, 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. But Peejoe has gotten a crash course in standing your ground and following your own path from his free-spirited Aunt Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who has killed her abusive husband and is headed for Hollywood, where she's convinced that television stardom awaits her. Crazy in Alabama marked the directorial debut of actor Antonio Banderas; his supporting cast includes Cathy Moriarty, Elizabeth Perkins, Rod Steiger, Fannie Flagg, and Meat Loaf Aday. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Melanie Griffith, David Morse, (more)
- 1964
Written, directed and co-produced by Arnold Louis Miller, this documentary takes a shallow look at the seamier side of London. Stressing the various ways people try to satiate their loneliness and find a little -- if brief -- companionship, various establishments and hang-outs are visited by the camera. Among many places of business depicted are bars, lounges, dance clubs, a body-building gym, and the like. Also shown is a balding man undergoing hair-replacement surgery and drug abusers and drunks trying to scrape along until they can find the next fix. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
