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Dudley Moore in CRAZY PEOPLE Year: 1990 Rating: ***1/2
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What's basically Dudley Moore's final leading role in a mainstream (live-action) comedy, CRAZY PEOPLE is better than its reputation, which is hardly anything at all...
A shame since this parody of not just the advertising industry but of one man who decided to be brutally forthright with his ads (basically parodying his own job), including taglines about fat people, scary movies, plane crashes, boxy cars, sexy cars and having sex at luxury resorts...
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Dudley Moore in CRAZY PEOPLE with Daryl Hannah
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Mostly taking place in a mental institution with an endearingly semi-humorous ensemble of troubled patients liken to THE DREAM TEAM, the biggest problem is that CRAZY PEOPLE takes too many detours away from the ads (that his loony friends help him with) and into Moore's romance with older-man's-fantasy Daryl Hannah, always a good actress but their relationship is contrived and horribly unrealistic...
From classics 10 to ARTHUR a decade earlier, Dudley Moore passed as an anti-sex-symbol sex-symbol... however, at this point he could be her uncle or father and yet, when CRAZY works it works pretty well, overall an enjoyable time-passing flick you can watch again and again... if only the director (Moore's buddy Tony Bill) stuck closer to the actual theme linking borderline insanity with complete and total honesty.
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| Dudley Moore in CRAZY PEOPLE |
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| Dudley Moore in CRAZY PEOPLE with Daryl Hannah and Bill Smitrovich |
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| Dudley Moore in CRAZY PEOPLE with Daryl Hannah and Bill Smitrovich |
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| John Terlesky in CRAZY PEOPLE with Daryl Hannah |
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| David Paymer in CRAZY PEOPLE with Danton Stone and Bill Smitrovich |
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