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Title: GET CRAZY Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2
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The
"Stoned Out" device from EASY RIDER to BREAKFAST CLUB overdoses in Alan Arkush's GET CRAZY where drugs allow the characters to miraculously
change their ways...
Not like there's any doubt things wouldn't have turned
out perfectly for Bill Graham-inspired Max Wolfe (Allen Garfield), preparing for his club's New Year's 15-year
anniversary concert with acts from blues-man Bill
Henderson to campy anthem-rocker Malcolm McDowell's Reggie Wanker,
who, living up to his last name and high on groovy juice provided by a
magical drug dealer, talks and listens to his own... um... wanker...
Meanwhile, club managers Daniel Stern and Gail
Edwards almost amount to a romance but there's so much ongoing music and
old style physical comedy shenanigans exploding in every direction, no real plots
can bother with GET CRAZY: Mixing an eclectic ensemble also including
McDowell's hot Swedish girlfriend Anna Bjorn, crooked mogul Ed Begley Jr. trying to
purchase the club using the owner's selfish nephew while Lou Reed walks the streets thinking up a comeback song, Lee Ving
stage dives and Stern's gorgeous little sister Stacey Nelkin's dying to
meet a rock star, any rock star that, again... comes to nothing but
noise. Which must be deliberate. A shame since the characters have
potential to stretch beyond the surrounding good times.
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Stacey Nelkin fits the Alan Arkush Ramones mold for GET CRAZY
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Doors drummer John Densmore as Malcolm's drummer toasting his dick in Get Crazy
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Malcolm McDowell as Reggie Wanker getting his wanker toasted in Get Crazy
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Gail Edwards, Daniel Stern, Denise Galik and Allen Garfield in GET CRAZY
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| Next Year's V: The Final Battle hottie Denise Galik as a nurse in GET CRAZY |
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| Anna Bjorn as Malcolm's girlfriend in GET CRAZY |
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Malcolm McDowell as Reggie Wanker in GET CRAZY
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