Get Crazy (1983)

Director:

Allan Arkush

Writers:

Danny Opatoshu (writer)
Henry Rosenbaum (writer)

Release Date:

5 August 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Tagline:

...And say goodbye to your brain!

Plot:

Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe...

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | Concert | Spoof | Crowd | Talking Penis

Cast

Malcolm McDowell	...	Reggie Wanker
Allen Garfield	...	Max Wolfe (as Allen Goorwitz)
Daniel Stern	...	Neil Allen
Gail Edwards	...	Willy Loman
Miles Chapin	...	Sammy Fox
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Colin Beverly
Stacey Nelkin	...	Susie Allen
Bill Henderson	...	King Blues
Lou Reed	...	Auden
Howard Kaylan	...	Captain Cloud
Lori Eastside	...	Nada
Lee Ving	...	Piggy
John Densmore	...	Toad
Anna Bjorn	...	Chantamina
Robert Picardo	...	O'Connell

Also Known As:

Flip Out

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1989) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1984) | Australia:M | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

The Wiltern - 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

D & P Productions

Trivia:

Director Allan Arkush also directed a music for Bette Midler covering The Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden", apparently on the same set. The video featured Mick Jagger and a walk-on appearance by 'Stacy Nelkin' at the line in the song that includes the words "little sister".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Auden walks straight out into the street, one car barely misses him and two more (blue car and the same orange car that Nada and her band arrive at the theatre in) skid to one side and almost crash. In the next shot, the blue car is still there, but the orange car (which should have been blocked in by the blue car) is gone.

Quotes:

[Eulogizing Howling Blind Luther Washington]
King Blues: God, this is my man, and you'd better take care of him, or I'm gonna wax your ass.

Movie Connections:

Features The Sunshine Makers (1935)

Soundtrack:

I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man

love it, love it, love it!

When I was about 13 I saw this on TV and afterwards kicked myself for not having taped it. Some years later while travelling I saw it through a video store window and, well, flipped out. After getting home I called up my estranged father and blackmailed him into buying it for me. The video title has a very unfortunate Finnish translation (which translates back to "Star Gang")and the absence of letterboxing results in booms aplenty, but NOTHING can ruin my joy of watching this movie again and again!