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1998 Certificate 15
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A satire of 70's era rock-and-roll about the reunion of Strange Fruit, a band that probably shouldn't have formed in the first place. Connolly (MRS. BROWN), Mike Leigh regular Spall, British chart-topper Nail, and the always-reliable Rea round out a talented ensemble cast in this distinctly bittersweet British comedy. Read more

Starring Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall
Director Brian Gibson
Genres Comedy

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Still Crazy

A satire of 70's era rock-and-roll about the reunion of Strange Fruit, a band that probably shouldn't have formed in the first place. Connolly (MRS. BROWN), Mike Leigh regular Spall, British chart-topper Nail, and the always-reliable Rea round out a talented ensemble cast in this distinctly bittersweet British comedy.

Starring Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy, Juliet Aubrey, Bruce Robinson
Director Brian Gibson
Studio SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Dubbed German
Subtitles DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
Released DVD: 11 Oct 1999
Production year: 1998
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Released a year after the demise of the genial TV series Crazy like a Fox, this TV movie reunites oddball San Francisco sleuth Jack Warden and his strait-laced lawyer son, John Rubinstein. Here, they head off to Britain, where they become the prime suspects in a murder mystery. Even though the victim is a kleptomanic nobleman, this might have become a chore were it not for Monty Python stalwart Graham Chapman, as the Scotland Yard detective in hot pursuit, whose mischievous performance keeps teetering on the brink of outright comedy.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • It's difficult to convey the deranged insanities of the rock experience: Rob Reiner managed it in This Is Spinal Tap... read more on Time Out

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Nighy's one actually

    I took a look at this film in the hazy afterglow of Bill Nighy's performance as the naked civil popster in Love Actually. I don't know how I missed it first time round, because Still Crazy is a little gem. 'Little' in that edgily cosy way that so many British films are.

    Still Crazy is worth seeing for a number of reasons; not least Jimmy Nail disciplining himself to take a back seat for a change (and I don't mean with a groupie).

    As a wannabe Spinal-Tap documentary (if you can call a narration from Billy Connolly a documentation) about a let's-reform-the-band plot – itself the b*stard offspring of the old Mickey Rooney let's-put-on-the-show-right-here stories – it ain't half bad. A sort of Withnail and middle age dread: a meeting you you want to miss but, like passing a car accident, you can't resist a peek.

    And Bill Nighy? Well the twitches, sniffs and shifty get-me-out-of-here glances aren't fully formed yet, but I couldn't resist old wretch in a semi-evolved state.

    Definitely worth a glazed look.

      • GoatsWriter from Buckinghamshire
      • Posted 14 Feb 2004 07:42

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Certainly worth watching.

    It was like watching Spinal Tap meets Bad News, so if you like either of those, I'm sure you'll like this film.

      • A customer from Essex
      • Posted 26 Dec 2004 21:39

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    • 13 Oct 2008

    Rock n roll lends itself to comedy. Anything that inspires grown men to act like kids (or half grown men for that matter) is already on that road. We’ve all seen This is Spinal Tap, but there are any number of its kind, from documentaries like Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and Anvil (playing at the London Film Festival this month) to sly coming of age comedies like Almost Famous to tongue in cheek romps like School of Rock and Still Crazy. Fish (Rainn Wilson) is like a character out of, Read more

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