Crazy in Alabama

Crazy in Alabama is a 1999 comedydrama film directed by Antonio Banderas, written by Mark Childress based on his own 1993 novel of the same name, and starring Melanie Griffith as an abused wife who heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff. The movie was filmed primarily in and around Houma, Louisiana with locations in Schriever, Chackbay, and New Orleans, Louisiana as well as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Lucille takes her husbands head everywhere she goes in a black hat box and looks forward to Hollywood promises. When the head is discovered by the hostess of a party, Lucille tries to get rid of the head by throwing it off the Golden Gate Bridge. Two policemen, thinking she is about to jump over herself, open the hat box and discover the head inside. She is arrested and escorted back to Alabama for her trial, where she is given a warm welcome by her town.After being convicted of firstdegree murder, Lucille is sentenced to twenty years in prison. However, the sentence is suspended, and she is put on a fiveyear probation with the condition that she seek psychiatric help. Lucille, her children, and all her friends joyfully exit the courtroom while the sheriff through Peejoes testimony is put under arrest for Taylors murder. ........

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