I rented this without knowing anything about it and was pleasantly surprised. The performances were very touching. The film's message was a bit too obvious and the courtroom scene in the end was just a vehicle for a soliloquy by Melanie Griffith who was appropriate for the part. But overall the film was well done and there is some pretty good cinematography. It was entertaining all the way through. Antonio Bandaras did a competent job in his first film as a director but a little more subtlety would have helped. Rod Steiger's performance as a judge towards the end was over the top. There were some pretty big holes in the flow of the story and some scenes were left unexplained. The legal part was totally Hollywood; not a shred of reality. It still worked despite the flaws.
Review of Crazy in Alabama
