Still Crazy

Still Crazy 1998

• Director: Brian Gibson
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Stephen Rea, Bill Nighy, Juliet Aubrey, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Helena Bergström, Bruce Robinson, Hans Matheson, Rachel Stirling, Frances Barber
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Stephen Rea – V for Vendetta, The Butcher Boy, Fever Pitch, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game, Life Is Sweet
• Bill Nighy – Hotel Marigold 1 & 2, Gideon’s Daughter, The World’s End, About Time, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1, Doctor Who, The Boat that Rocked, Valkyria, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hot Fuzz, Notes on a Scandal, The Constant Gardener, The Girl in the Café, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Kiss Me Kate, Longitude
• Juliet Aubrey – The Constant Gardener, Go Now, Middlemarch
• Jimmy Nail – Crocodile Shoes, Evita, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Spender
• Timothy Spall – Mr Turner, Harry Potter, The King’s Speech, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Auf Wiedersehn Pet, My House in Umbria, Nicholas Nickleby, Love’s Labour Lost, Topsy-Turvy, Our Mutual Friend, Hamlet, Secrets and Lies, Life is Sweet, Gothic, Quadrophenia
• Billy Connelly – What We Did on Our Holiday, Quartet, The X Files I Want to Believe, White Oleander, Third Rock from the Sun, Mrs Brown
• Helena Bergström – Änglagård, Snoken, Blackjack
• Bruce Robinson – Withnail and I, Romeo and Juliet
• Hans Matheson - Sherlock Holmes, Les Misérables
• Rachel Stirling – Their Finest Hour, Bletchley Circle, Doctor Who, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
• Frances Barber – Vicious, Doctor Who, Hustle, Twelfth Night, Prick Up Your Ears
• Why? Bill Nighy et al
• Seen: 18 May 2019

             Rock band Strange Fruit is not at its peak in the 70’s. In fact, it just went defunct. Years go by. Fate wants them to reunite. Not an easy task getting them together again. Or getting them to recreate the panache. Especially since they all still hate each other. Especially since one of them is dead.

       That’s the story.

       It’s quite tragic. And painfully funny. The cast is brilliant, including Sweden’s very own Helena Bergström.

       Don’t you just have to love it?

5* of 5