Guncrazy (1992) on Netflix
Anita Minteer, 16, wants to be popular in her Central California town. She lives with her mother's boyfriend, Rooney, and starts writing to Howard Hickok, a convict serving time for manslaughter.
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Plot summary
Anita Minteer is a 16-year-old in a small Central California town who longs to be popular. After school she has sex with two classmates, Tom and Bill. At the trailer she shares with Rooney, her mother's boyfriend, he says her mother has left for Fresno to look for work. A teacher's pen-pal assignment puts Anita in touch with Howard Hickok, a 24-year-old inmate at the California Institution for Men in Chino, where he is serving time for manslaughter. Their letters grow into a romance, and they devise a parole plan in which Howard claims a religious awakening. Rooney shows Anita how to fire a pistol.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Guncrazy (1992)
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- Tamra Davis read the script in 1985 and loved that it revolved around a strong female character, but she spent years trying to set the film up while people asked her why she wanted to make a film about two awful kids who kill people.
- Costume designer Merrie Lawson studied girls at Pasadena's Eagle Rock Plaza mall, bought Drew Barrymore's clothes at the Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul and Goodwill, chose undersized dresses, and tie-dyed every item including the socks so Anita would look like someone who rarely does laundry.
- Drew Barrymore turned down the chauffeur that is commonly provided to actors on set, telling Tamra Davis she could get to work on time by herself and would not be treated like a baby.
