Crazy Mama is a 1975 film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by Julie Corman. Cloris Leachman stars, with Dennis Quaid and Bill Paxton seen briefly in two of their earliest roles. On December 17, 2010, Shout! Factory released the title on DVD, packaged as a double feature with The Lady In Red as part of the Roger Corman Cult Classics collection. In 1958, a Long Beach, California beauty parlor run by Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl, is repossessed. They flee when landlord Mr. Albertson comes to demand the back rent. On the road, heading back to Arkansas to reclaim the... family farm, the Stokes women begin a crime spree. They rob a gas station first, then head for Las Vegas next. In pursuit of pregnant Cheryl is her boyfriend, Shawn, while Melba gets reacquainted with an old lover, Jim Bob. Further battles with the law along the way eventually lead to a shootout in which Jim Bob and others are killed. Melba is left alone, on the lam, but begins life again in a new town with a new look.
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| Release date: | June 1975 |
| Directed by: | Jonathan Demme |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 83 Minutes |
| Producer: | Julie Corman |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |