Product Details

• Actors: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Jim Backus, Don Most
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: New Concorde
• DVD Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000063K0P
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,427 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Crazy Mama" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous relentlessly kitschy celebration of 50's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, for a crime spree from California to the old family homestead in Arkansas. Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Language: English Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1. Number of discs: 1. Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested). Studio: New Concorde. DVD Release Date: May 28, 2002. Run Time: 83 minutes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, not so bad DVD., April 4, 2007

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Nathaniel Daigle (Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crazy Mama (DVD)

okay, so the print was not perfect but from the other comments i was expecting it to be horrible. it was not that bad. people cannot expect all dvd releases of older cult titles to be given the VIP treatment since i'm sure there is not an enormous ammount of money to be made by the releaser. i'm just glad to have it on DVD. Ann Sothern and Cloris Leachman are a hoot, Don Most, pre-Happy Days, is great, and Linda Purl is drop dead gorgeous. This is a great buy if you like Bloody Mama and Big Bad Mama, the other two movies in the out of control outlaw women triumverate. Which reminds me, why the hell isn't Bloody Mama on DVD?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun movie, May 12, 2005

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Artur Hermenegildo (Lisboa Portugal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crazy Mama (DVD)

I just saw "Crazy Mama" yesterday on a theatre (actually, not a commercial theatre but the Lisbon Cinemateca).

The movie is a lot of fun, a good "road movie", and clearly Demme has talent and avoids many of the technical or stylistic "pitfalls" that are unfortunately common on 70's cinema (hand-held camera, zoom, etc).

Tha actors are well directed and the humour is kept on a restrained level, without over-the-top performances or situations that would be easy to do in a movie of this type.

What intrigues me is the format issue. The DVD is not widescreen, and a viewer said it was "pan-and-scan". But the fact is the copy I saw yesterday was not widescreen either, and visually it didn't look "pan-adn-scan"! And on IMDB, there is no mention to the picture's original format, but the DVD is referred to as "pan-and-scan".

Will anyone help me on this?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Directors Cut of "CRAZY MAMA", April 21, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Crazy Mama (DVD)

A joyous, unrelentless, kitchy celebration of 1950's Americana, Rock n Roll and the road.

This "Directors Cut" of Crazy Mama is a lot of fun because it also includes a feature length audio commentary by its director Jonathan Demme and the produscer Roger Corman.

Follow 3 generations of womwn and the men they pick up. It's general mayhem as their crime spree races from California to Arkansas.

CLASSIC 50's HITS SOUND TRACK - Set in 1950's rural America, with a great Rock n Roll sound track, it's a hillarious romp starring Cloris Leachman and Ann Sothern as the Crazy Mamas of the title.....who form a gang of regular, ordinary people who rob gas stations, super markets and eventually banks....the eldest member being an 82 year old grannie.

This movie is a lot of fun!