Underplayed Gems

Crazy Mama (1975)

Crazy Mama poster
Directed by
Jonathan Demme
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 24 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A beauty parlor owner and her family lose everything to repossession and go on a crime spree that ends in a shootout with police.

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What happens

Crazy Mama is a 1975 American action comedy film, directed by Jonathan Demme, produced by Julie Corman and starring Cloris Leachman. It marked the film debuts of Bill Paxton and Dennis Quaid. The film focuses on a beauty parlor owner and her family, who lose their belongings to repossession. The trio of women soon start a crime spree. Their confrontation with law enforcement officers ends in a shootout. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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