Guncrazy

Movie
German title	Guncrazy
Original title	Guncrazy
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1992
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK no youth approval
Rod
Director	Tamra Davis
script	Matthew Bright
production	Diane Firestone , Zane W. Levitt
music	Ed Tomney
camera	Lisa Rinzler
cut	Kevin Tent
occupation
	Drew Barrymore : Anita Minteer; James LeGros : Howard; Robert Greenberg : Mr. Sheets; Rodney Harvey : Tom; Jeremy Davies : Bill; Dan Eisenstein : Chuck; Joe Dallesandro : Rooney; Willow Tipton : Schoolgirl; Ione Skye : Joy; Billy Drago : Hank Fulton; Tracey Walter : Elton; Michael Ironside : Mr. Kincaid;

Guncrazy (alternative title: Gun Crazy - Junge Killer ; original title: Guncrazy ) is an American thriller by Tamra Davis from 1992 .

action

Anita Minteer and her drug addict mother live in a mobile home. Mother Anita's boyfriend drinks too much alcohol and harasses the girl. Anita is considered an outsider in her school.

One of the teachers asks Anita and the other kids in her class to find a pen pal by searching the newspaper's classifieds. In this way she gets to know the imprisoned Howard, with whom she has a pen pals. She discovers that, like her pen pal, she has a passion for guns.

Howard is released on parole. He finds a job and an apartment. When he was defending Anita from a rapist, he shot the man. Then Anita and Howard travel together through the USA; they commit some armed robbery.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was not a remake of the film of the same name by Joseph H. Lewis from 1949, but its "reinterpretation". The characters and the relationships between them are "modernized". The film is basically a "love story", but it is not one of those "nice", "romantic" films where the audience can be sure that everything will turn out well. The biggest weakness of the film is its tendency to "self-irony". Berardinelli praised the portrayal of Drew Barrymore.

Awards

In 1993 Drew Barrymore won an award from the Festival Internazionale del Giallo e del Mistero di Cattolica , Tamra Davis was nominated for a festival award. Drew Barrymore was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1993.

background

The film was shot in California in 23 days . Its production cost was estimated at about 800 thousand. Dollars . The world premiere took place on September 11, 1992 at the Toronto Film Festival . The film grossed approximately 114.5 thousand US dollars in cinemas in the United States.

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literature

Georg Seeßlen : Drew Barrymore , Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-929470-34-9 , pages 72, 140-141

Web links

Guncrazy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Guncrazy at rotten tomatoes (English)

[1] Review by James Berardinelli

[2] Filming locations for Guncrazy

[3] Business Data for Guncrazy

[4] Start dates for Guncrazy