Crazy Mama Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jonathan Demme
Genres: Comedy, Crime
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Cloris_Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan_Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint_Kimbrough), turning her mother Sheba (Ann_Sothern) into a bitter widow. Mother and daughter take off to Long Beach, California, and the time jumps to 1958, when the two are thrown out of their beauty salon for non-payment of back rent. Melba now has an attractive (and pregnant) teenage daughter Cheryl (Linda_Purl). The three generations take to the road, stealing cars and creating general mayhem across the United States, robbing a motorcycle racetrack box office and a bank. But in 1959, Melba and Cheryl are picked up again, running a Miami Beach snack bar, their lives wasted in free-living terror. Paul Brenner, Rovi
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