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TITLE Crazy People (1990)

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DISABILITY Mental

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 90

GENRE Comedy

DIRECTOR Tony Bill

CAST Dudley Moore

Daryl Hannah

Paul Reiser

Mercedes Ruehl

J.T. Walsh

NOTES Before "Liar, Liar" there was another film in which a comedy

actor plays a character who has to tell the truth (well, he

doesn't actually have to but thinks it a good idea) . But the

whimsy, charm, poignancy and acting talent is missing from

this picture.

Moore works in advertising but instead of hyping the products he is frank and honest. His sane colleagues have him committed to a mental hospital. However as one might have predicted the adverts are successful. In the meanwhile he quite enjoys the institution and falls in love with another patient.



The film also proposes that the people of the ad agency are

madder than the patients in the mental hospital but only

someone who hasn't been inside a mental hospital would

suggest that.

 


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