Still Crazy

Still Crazy is a film that looks back at the "rock band" era of the 1970s. Brian Gibson, who has directed musical biographies on Josephine Baker and Tina Turner, sets his narrative on a rock group, Strange Fruit, who are attempting a comeback twenty years after a bolt of lightening literally ended ...more

Viewed by many as a kinder, gentler This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Still Crazy opened to mixed reviews in 1998. Directed by Brian Gibson, veteran of What's Love Got to Do With It? (1993), and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the scriptwriters for The Commitments (1991), Still Crazy attempts to capture the comedy and pathos of an aging rock band. To achieve authenticity, Mick Jones of Foreigner and Chris Difford from Squeeze were brought in to write the movie's songs. Unlike This Is Spinal ...more