Crimewave is a 1985 comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, an unusual slapstick mix of film noir, black comedy and several eras, starring Reed Birney, Paul L. Smith, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Bruce Campbell, and Sheree J. Wilson. It was Raimi's first studio film following the success of The Evil Dead. The film is also known as The XYZ Murders in some parts of the world, although it was first shown to a public in a sneak preview with the title Broken Hearts And Noses. The Three Stooges inspired script was written by Raimi along with Joel and Ethan Coen and contains a prison named Hudsucker. The... brothers would go on to make the film The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi and Campbell. The name also appears in their 1987 film Raising Arizona. Elements of Crimewave were also re-used by frequent Raimi collaborator Josh Becker for the movie Lunatics: A Love Story, as well as by Raimi himself in Spider-Man and its sequels. Much of the film's comedy derives from the combination of surprises with traditional, explicitly familiar gags.
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| Release date: | 1985 |
| Directed by: | Sam Raimi |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 83 Minutes |
| Producer: | Edward R. Pressman, Irvin Shapiro, Robert Tapert |
| Screenplay by: | Sam Raimi, Joel Coen |
| Estimated budget: | $3,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |