Crime Wave (1985)

Directed by

John Paizs

Genre

adventure film, comedy film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker in Winnipeg tries to make a crime movie but keeps getting interrupted by his own oddball life and the film's strange production. The movie is a comedy about making a movie, full of weird characters and homemade style.

quirkyplayfulsurrealoffbeatdeadpanwhimsicallow-keynostalgic

What happens

Crime Wave, also known as The Big Crime Wave, is a 1985 Canadian independent surrealist comedy film written, produced and directed by Winnipeg-based filmmaker John Paizs. It was shot principally in 1984 and premiered at the 1985 Festival of Festivals, although Paizs subsequently opted to reshoot the ending, which had received more mixed reaction at TIFF than the rest of the film, before it received limited followup commercial release. The film lacked a major release in Canada and abroad, and remained almost as a "curiosity" that a few fans and movie critics remembered fondly. Over time, word-of-mouth and some retrospective showings at film festivals helped Crime Wave to achieve a bigger notoriety, and it is currently considered as a cult film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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