2010 · comedy · romance · crime
Crazy on the Outside
Directed by Tim Allen1h 36m2010
A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars after getting caught committing a crime and taking the rap for his much more dangerous pal.
Our read: Crazy on the Outside (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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