Get Crazy (1983) on Netflix
New Year's Eve 1982: Max Wolfe's Saturn Theater readies its big concert. Stage manager Neil Allen and visiting Willy Loman help. Promoter Colin Beverly wants the lease; Max refuses to sell.
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Plot summary
The Saturn Theater has been Max Wolfe's since 1968, and on the last night of 1982, he is staging a New Year's Eve concert there. Stage manager Neil Allen works the show, and Willy Loman, a former stage manager, is back visiting. Colin Beverly, a promoter with an auditorium and stadium of his own, offers to buy Max out of the theater's thirty-year lease. Max turns him down. Outside, Max's nephew Sammy learns that he stands to inherit the Saturn, and Beverly makes him the same offer, with a condition: get Max's signature on a transfer before midnight. Meanwhile the acts arrive, among them Reggie Wanker, a rock star two decades into his career; King Blues; Nada and her band; Captain Cloud and the Rainbow Telegraph; and Auden, a reclusive folk singer.
Cast
- Howard Kaylanas Captain Cloud
- Lori Eastsideas Nada
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Get Crazy (1983)
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- Allan Arkush wanted Mariska Hargitay, Jerry Orbach and Tom Hanks for the parts that went to Stacey Nelkin, Allen Garfield and Daniel Stern, but producer Solow refused.
- Arkush said the release was a scam: shares were sold to a Wall Street tax shelter group and the film was put out to lose money, like the scheme in The Producers (1968), so nobody saw it on purpose.
- Concert scenes and marquee exteriors were shot at Los Angeles's historic Wiltern Theatre, which was about to be restored; Malcolm McDowell said the cast trashed it first, and the owners knew and did not mind.
- Arkush said he was desperate to make a movie about something he knew after his film Heartbeeps (1981) flopped, and the only way to get Get Crazy made was as an Airplane!-style comedy instead of the realistic movie he wished for.
- Every actor performed their own vocal tracks, though none but Lou Reed wrote their songs, and Malcolm McDowell had it written into his contract that he be allowed to sing.
