Synopsis
A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
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Cast
- Dudley MooreEmory Leeson
- Daryl HannahKathy Burgess
- Paul ReiserStephen Bachman
- J.T. WalshDrucker
- David PaymerGeorge
- Mercedes RuehlDr. Liz Baylor
- Paul BatesRobles
- Bill SmitrovichBruce
- Doug YasudaHsu
- Ben HammerDr. Koch
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
Crazy People combines a hilarious dissection of advertising with a warm view of so-called insanity... Finished film is a credit to all hands. - 60
Empire
Directed by Tony Bill and written by Mitch Markowitz, there are far worse comedies than Crazy People out there on the market and Dudley Moore's adverts are, at times, pretty darn hilarious. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
There is nothing really wrong with the scenes in the institution, except that they're in the wrong movie. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The satiric idea behind Crazy People deserves a better movie. - 50
Orlando Sentinel
The ads in this film are so funny that I wish I could report that the production containing them is equally hilarious. But as it turns out, Crazy People is wobbly - a watchable but unremarkable showcase for the exceptional ads. - 50
Chicago Reader
This leads to some fairly amusing gags involving surreal ads for actual products (e.g., for Jaguar: “Sleek and smart. For men who'd like hand jobs from beautiful women they hardly know”). Moore's boss is so horrified by this development that he sends him to a sanitarium, at which point the movie takes an abrupt nosedive into the sort of tacky media lies it is supposedly attacking. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
As for the performances, Moore doesn't bring anything special to his role, but Hannah's slightly awkward and befuddled demeanor works to her advantage, since she's playing someone with a tenuous grip on reality. The other performers are generally left adrift by the simpleminded, juvenile script, which, devoid of comic inspiration, resorts to gratuitous profanity and crude sex jokes. - 30
The New York Times
The movie's attitude toward the mentally and emotionally disturbed is even worse. If Crazy People displayed an ounce of real wit, one wouldn't care, but it's so smug in its ignorance that it begins to look elitist.
