Crazy Mama (1975)

Storyline

Jonathan Demme directs this joyous unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 50’s America: opportunity, rock’n’roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up, for a crime spree from California to the old family homestead in Arkansas. Crazy Mama, the 1975 Jonathan Demme teen crime action thriller (“In 1957 Cheryl drove Mom’s Chevy on a heavy date: Got knocked up, knocked over a bank, smashed four police cars and kidnapped her stepfather It was a crazy year!”) starring Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Linda Purl, Jim Backus (best remembered as the voice of Mr. Magoo and as Thurston Howell III in TV’s “Gilligan’s Island”), Tisha Sterling, Donn Most, and Will Sampson (best remembered as Chief Bromden in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) and “10 Golden Oldies!”