Crazy in Alabama
1999
**½
Director: Antonio Banderas
Cast: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf
Antonio Banderas' directorial debut is a messy but watchable comedy drama about a woman from Alabama who kills her husband and travels to Hollywood with his head in a box. Her nephew has problems of his own and he narrates a usual "that summer changed my life" story. There are some poignant bits but all the elements don't come together, the ending is especially unsatisfactory. Mark Childress adapted his own novel.
