Crazy Famous

2018 • 77 minutu

Film honi buruz

In this clever and riveting comedy-adventure, Crazy Famous explores the basic human desire for fame through the eyes of a wide-eyed average Joe. Bob’s obsession to be famous lands him in a mental hospital after an outrageous stunt to get the media’s attention fails. When a psychiatrist tells Bob he needs to accept being average and stop pursuing fame, Bob throws a full blown tantrum and threatens to kill himself. Forced to wear an anti-suicide smock, a sullen Bob runs into Smith; a deranged mental patient who claims Osama Bin Laden is still alive and knows where he's hiding. Bob's enthusiasm is rekindled when Smith promises to make Bob famous in exchange for helping him escape the hospital to capture Bin Laden. To assist with this improbable mission, Bob recruits an angry naysayer with a myriad of mental health issues and a Dr. Phil wannabe. The escape surprisingly succeeds - - leaving our band of misfits free for one last desperate attempt to make Bob a household name.

Balorazioak eta iritziak

The movie starts out interesting enough. An ordinary man named Bob jumps the Camp David fence in his underwear in order "to get on the 11 o'clock news." Instead he's thrown into a mental asylum and threatens to commit suicide when the doctor tells him he will never be famous. He's given a heavy sedative and is knocked out cold. I get all that. After this moment, the film turns into "A Beautiful Mind" type movie because you're never sure if what Bob is going through is real or imagined. I guess it doesn't matter because when the story surprisingly veers off into an escape to assassinate Bin Laden, you're hooked. Full of laughs, adventure, and conflicted characters, what keeps you paying attention is to find out if all the people Bob encounters is real or just a dream. This is an unusual low budget movie as it takes on such a big story. But except for some minor flaws, Crazy Famous manages to pull it off.

Low budget buddy movie that relates to the current trend of people chasing their 15 minutes of fame. Good story; good acting. Well done.

Had a smile on my face the entire movie. Intelligent & entertaining movie that is very topical - - everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame.