Crazy People [Blu-ray]

Director: Tony Bill Tony Bill

Overview

Dudley Moore stars as Emory Lesson, an advertising genius whose finds himself committed to an insane asylum in Tony Bill's Crazy People. Emory becomes tired with creating phony ad campaigns and decides to create his own campaigns that tell the brutal truth. Since sex sells, Emory designs an explicit ad campaign consisting of unadorned sexuality. The campaign is so offensive that his colleagues have Emory put in a mental institution. At first Emory resists, but under the tutelage of a concerned psychiatrist, Dr. Liz Baylor (Mercedes Ruehl) and the tender love of Kathy (Daryl Hannah) a beautiful patient, Emory begins to like it in the mental home. Befriending the cute and lovable patients in the mental ward, Emory discovers that the crazy people are natural-born advertising geniuses and Emory utilizes their genius for a new ad campaign.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/21/2023
UPC:	0826663235319
Original Release:	1990
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Shout Factory
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	18,195

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dudley Moore	Emory Leeson
Daryl Hannah	Kathy Burgess
Paul Reiser	Stephen Bachman
Mercedes Ruehl	Dr. Elizabeth Baylor
J.T. Walsh	Charles F. Drucker
Ben Hammer	Dr. Horace Koch
Dick Cusack	Mort Powell
Alan North	Judge
David Paymer	George Cartelli
Danton Stone	Saabs
Doug Yasuda	Hsu
Bill Smitrovich	Bruce Concannon
Paul Bates	Manuel Robles
Floyd Vivino	Eddie Avis
David Packer	Mark Olander
John Terlesky	Adam Burgess
Larry King	Himself
Cliff Eidelman	Actor,Composer
John Marshall Jones	Actor
Randell Haynes	Powell
Lorri Lindberg	Stephen's Secretary
Ann Pierce	William Holden,Heavy Daughter
Kim Clark	Very Large Man,Executive #1
Pam La Testa	Heavy Woman
Bob Martana	Heavy Man
Christine Larson	Operator #1
John Bennes	Pharmacist
Julian Bell	TV Anchor
Maggie Han	Connie Vega-Margolis
Robert Weiss	Outraged Movie Patron
Mark Joy	Executive #2
J. Hunter	Eric the Orderly
David Muir	Continental Express Driver
Alan Haufrect	Hit and Run Victim
Mitch Markowitz	Utility Nut
Mick McGovern	Rig Driver
Lloyd Kino	Mr. Yamashita
Robert Ito	Yamashita's Aide
John Jones	Montesque
John Barrymore	Voices
Corey Carrier	Actor
Ed Lillard	Senior Executive Matthews
Allison Caine	Voices

Technical Credits

Mitch Markowitz

Tom Barad	Producer
Tony Bill	Director
Robert K. Weiss	Executive Producer,Producer
Michael Ewing	Producer
Mitch Markowitz	Screenwriter
Lynn Stalmaster	Casting

Editorial Reviews

Vastly underrated director Tony Bill reunites with Dudley Moore, the star of his film Six Weeks (1982), for this memorable comedy that relies too much on its genuinely funny central idea and not enough on developing its hilarious ensemble of wacky supporting characters. What works phenomenally well in this box-office bust is the concept of literal truth in advertising. Not only are the brutally honest ad campaigns dreamed up by screenwriter Mitch Markowitz scathingly funny, they remind the audience of just how overwhelmingly disingenuous are the corporate messages with which they are endlessly barraged. Much to the film's detriment, though, the lead role of Emory (Moore) is woefully unexplored, as are the delightful supporting players he meets in the insane asylum, particularly George (David Paymer) (the "Hello" guy), around whom much more comic business should have been built. If the rest of Crazy People (1990) had been as wickedly subversive as the picture's high-concept pitch, the final product might have been a comedy classic.

All Movie Guide - Karl Williams