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Get Crazy

  • 19831983
  • RR
  • 1h 32m
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6.6/10
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Get Crazy (1983)
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
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Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save t... Read allMega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.

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  • Director
    • Allan Arkush
  • Writers
    • Danny Opatoshu(screenplay by)
    • Henry Rosenbaum(screenplay by)
    • David Taylor(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Malcolm McDowell
    • Allen Garfield
    • Daniel Stern
Top credits
  • Director
    • Allan Arkush
  • Writers
    • Danny Opatoshu(screenplay by)
    • Henry Rosenbaum(screenplay by)
    • David Taylor(screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Malcolm McDowell
    • Allen Garfield
    • Daniel Stern
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    • 43User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Malcolm McDowell and Anna Bjorn in Get Crazy (1983)
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    Gail Edwards and Daniel Stern in Get Crazy (1983)
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    Top cast

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    Malcolm McDowell
    Malcolm McDowell
    • Reggie Wankeras Reggie Wanker
    Allen Garfield
    Allen Garfield
    • Max Wolfeas Max Wolfe
    Daniel Stern
    Daniel Stern
    • Neil Allenas Neil Allen
    Gail Edwards
    Gail Edwards
    • Willy Lomanas Willy Loman
    Miles Chapin
    Miles Chapin
    • Sammy Foxas Sammy Fox
    Ed Begley Jr.
    Ed Begley Jr.
    • Colin Beverlyas Colin Beverly
    Stacey Nelkin
    Stacey Nelkin
    • Susie Allenas Susie Allen
    Bill Henderson
    Bill Henderson
    • King Bluesas King Blues
    Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    • Audenas Auden
    Howard Kaylan
    • Captain Cloudas Captain Cloud
    Lori Eastside
    • Nadaas Nada
    Lee Ving
    Lee Ving
    • Piggyas Piggy
    John Densmore
    John Densmore
    • Toadas Toad
    Anna Bjorn
    Anna Bjorn
    • Chantaminaas Chantamina
    Robert Picardo
    Robert Picardo
    • O'Connellas O'Connell
    Bobby Sherman
    Bobby Sherman
    • Markas Mark
    Fabian
    Fabian
    • Marvas Marv
    • (as Fabian Forte)
    Franklyn Ajaye
    Franklyn Ajaye
    • Coolas Cool
    • Director
      • Allan Arkush
    • Writers
      • Danny Opatoshu(screenplay by)
      • Henry Rosenbaum(screenplay by)
      • David Taylor(screenplay by)
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    Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes. —<rth@ece.arizona.edu>
    • payphone
    • pay phone
    • timeframe 1980s
    • concert
    • drugs
    • 17 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • ...And say goodbye to your brain!
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Music
    • Certificate
      • R
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Malcolm McDowell didn't read the whole script when he accepted the role. When he arrived for filming, he was shocked when another actor asked him how he planned to play the conversation with his penis.
    • Goofs
      When King Blues and son are meeting the Jews Band for the first time a boom mic is painfully visible above Max and King swinging back and forth as conversation changes hand.
    • Quotes

      Sammy Fox: This is an honor, Mr. Beverly, you're my hero. You're rich, you're powerful, you're famous, you're ruthless. Nobody fucks with you, you fuck with everybody!

    • Connections
      Featured in Cheap Thrills Theatre: Get Crazy (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Just One Look
      Written by Doris Troy (as Doris Payne) and Gregory Carroll

      Performed by Doris Troy

    User reviews43

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    GET CRAZY (Allan Arkush, 1983) ***
    Allan Arkush's lesser-known but superior follow-up to ROCK'N'ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979) was an affectionately cheeky tribute to his own days as an usher at the legendary New York concert venue Fillmore East which, during its four year tenure between 1968-71, housed live performances by scores of major rock and jazz artists. The light-hearted satirical film provides the viewer with a rare opportunity to see actors being rock stars (Malcolm McDowell as a vain Mick Jagger-like superstar named Reggie W**ker) and vice versa (Lou Reed as a recluse folkie in the Bob Dylan mould named Auden and John Densmore, the former drummer for The Doors, as W**ker's drummer who goes by the name of Toad); other renowned musical personalities who are respectfully sent up are Jerry Garcia (via Howard Kaylan leading a group of hippies who believe themselves still back in 1968 rather than 1982!) and Muddy Waters (played by Bill Henderson who also utters the film's funniest line while delivering, of all things, a funeral eulogy: "God, this is my man, and you'd better take care of him, or I'm gonna wax your a**!"). This is also followed by a blind man falling into the open grave, the dead man's son driving like a demon to reach the concert venue on time and, much later on, Henderson getting another big laugh when he is 'struck blind' after sipping an acid-spiked drink when he had really only walked into the closet!

    The rest of the cast includes even more colorful characters, namely: Daniel Stern as the overtaxed organizer of the star-studded New Year's Eve concert; Allen Garfield (billed as Goorwitz and portraying Stern's employer who is struck down by a mild heart attack); Miles Chapin (as Garfield's overly ambitious and treacherous nephew); Ed Begley Jr. (who, made up to resemble Andy Warhol, plays greedy billionaire Colin Beverly and is looking to buy off Garfield and take over his property); 1960s teen idol Fabian (unregonizable as one of Begley's monosyllabic henchmen!) Lee Ving (as an animalistic punk rocker, prone to head-butting anything from car booths to stone walls, and fronting an all-girls band!), Paul Bartel (as the proverbial "doctor in the house" who, overtaken by enthusiasm, eventually leaps off the balcony into the audience below!); and Robert Picardo (as an overzealous fire marshal); ubiquitous character actors Dick Miller (as Stern's father) and Mary Woronov also have cameos. As if all of the above were not enough source of entertainment already, we also have a Jewish Blues band, an electric ghost-cum-drug pusher(!), a motorcycle gang and Stern's overeager younger sister (to whom Reed croons "My Baby Sister" – a song later retitled "Little Sister" and issued in a Reed compilation album – over the film's end credits, a performance only witnessed by her, a dog and a human joint!); on the debit side, I do not think it was such a great idea to have all of the bands performing at the New Year's Eve concert doing their own take on the same song i.e. Willie Dixon's Blues number, "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man".

    Apparently, McDowell had not read the entire script before accepting the role of Reggie W**ker and hence was not aware that he was expected to, at one point while inadvertently high on acid, conduct a conversation with his own dick (who is subsequently appointed the band's new manager!)...not that this should have unduly troubled the lead of Tinto Brass' infamous star-studded epic CALIGULA (1979)! On the other hand, while Lou Reed's character may have ostensibly been channeling Dylan (in its clear reference to those eight years in the wilderness following his 1966 motorcycle accident) but Auden (a reference to poet W.H. Auden, perhaps?)'s lifestyle and working methods – living with what looks like a transsexual (a reference to Reed's 1970s relationship with "Rachel") and composing lyrics right off of the streets (he spends most of the film stuck in a taxicab that takes him all the way out to the desert while strumming his guitar and coming up with lyrics) – is pure Lou Reed!

    I had previously seen the film via a pan-and-scan screening on the MGM Cable TV channel but I eventually upgraded my copy to a Widescreen one in time for my mini-Bob Dylan tribute. From the director's other works, apart from ROCK'N'ROLL HIGH SCHOOL I am also familiar with DEATHSPORT (1978) and have just gotten hold of Hollywood BOULEVARD (1976) which he co-directed with Joe Dante. Curiously enough, Arkush had also directed the video for Bette Midler's cover of The Rolling Stones' "Beast Of Burden" - originally from their ground-breaking disco-tinged SOME GIRLS (1978) album!
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    • Release date
      • August 5, 1983 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Flip Out
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • D & P Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $5,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,645,711
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,645,711
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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