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Still Crazy (1998)

Director: Brian Gibson

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From Time Out Film Guide

It's difficult to convey the deranged insanities of the rock experience: Rob Reiner managed it in This Is Spinal Tap and made us laugh. It's even harder to encapsulate that brief time when the crap falls away and group harmony prevails, as Alan Parker did in The Commitments. To do both is nearly a miracle; in Brian Gibson's film, with screenplay by comedy survivors Clement and La Frenais (who also scripted Parker's film), a first-rate cast and an assortment of musical talents pull off this race with the amplified devil. Strange Fruit are a late '70s middle league rock outfit seeking to re-form in the nervous late '90s; Robin Hood meets TV's Auf Wiedersehen Pet as Nighy's struggling solo artist reunites with Spall's tax-dodging drummer and Nail's bass-playing roofer. Through thin, thin, thin and a bit of thick, the lads try to rekindle the flame, propped up by Juliet Aubrey's long suffering manager and Connolly's Zappa-esque roadie. The jokes are good, the music loud, but what makes the film so special is that it tells you why you ever bought an album or queued for ten hours in the rain to see Alice Cooper.

Author: SGr 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide


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  • Geoff Dawson said...
    Posted on Apr 05 2009 23:49 A bloody good laugh. If you weren't around in the 70's and around for the rock and blues revival in the 90's, it won't mean the same to you.
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  • pg said...
    Posted on Mar 16 2009 20:38 very good movie but the best performance of all is given by juliet aubrey!!!
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  • Chrisc_s said...
    Posted on Mar 07 2008 17:45 A truly underated film with great humour in a typically British deprecating way
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