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Lunatics a Love Story
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2221 in VHS
- Released on: 1992-07-29
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Formats: Color, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Number of tapes: 1
- Running time: 87 minutes
Customer Reviews
I would give it more stars if I could...
This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and in my opinion, one of the spiffiest movies ever made. That being said, I think most people (like my mother) might be very bored. It's very off-the-wall, and at several points, rather slow-moving. This is not an action-packed movie, with many scenes involving only one or two people at a time, though there are some chase scenes and fights (Ted Raimi dressed in tin foil and armed with a baseball bat is an image that will live happily in my brain forever). The plot revolves around a young man, named Hank Stone, who has some serious issues: he's afraid to go outside his apartment, covers the walls in foil, and tends to have very violent hallucinations (including Bruce Campbell as a surgeon who wants to either cut his head open or inject him with "red fluid"). He winds up meeting a girl named Nancy, who's convinced everything she touches is cursed and doomed (she actually has several good reasons for thinking this, though). They must both overcome their own problems to help each other. The plot itself is fairly simple, in a boy-meets-girl sort of way. However, the main draw of this movie, for me, is the sheer awesome-ness that is Ted Raimi. In one of his very few starring roles, he pulls off a variety of bizarre stunts and spazzes that I can't imagine anyone else being able to get away with (like trying to strangle himself). He manages to be quite convincingly mentally disturbed, while at the same time maintaining an innocence and endearing sweetness that make you want him to succeed. If you are a fan of any of the main actors (Bruce Campbell does double duty as a hallucination and Nacy's jerk of an ex-boyfriend), you will be more inclined to like this movie. Also, if you just want to see Ted Raimi beat himself senseless (or conversely, see him get revenge on Bruce Campbell for beating him up in Evil Dead II), you'll probably be amused there, too. I have to say that this is the only movie I have ever watched where I actually repeatedly cheered on the main character out loud; it's just that spiffy.
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I am just letting you know that the rating only applies if you are, like me, a fan of low budget movies. If you enjoy large extravagant chase scenes with explosions, you have tumbled onto the wrong page. If you feel otherwise, read on.
Ted Raimi stars in Lunatics, which is based mostly in a grungy apartment that Ted aka. Hank, has covered in tin foil. Throughout the film, you fall in love with Hank's neurosis as well as his outlook on the outside world. With Bruce Campbell (everyone's favorite "B" movie actor) playing multiple roles as both a male chauvinist pig and an eccentric doctor, this movie is overall a perfect example of how you don't need a big budget to make a movie that is well done and has creative lead characters.
The most impressive part of the movie is defiantly Ted and how surprisingly well he plays someone going completely out of his mind (not that I had any doubt in his acting ability to begin with) and Deborah Foreman holds down her role effectively countering Raimi's performance . For fans of the underground movie circuit, John Cameron playing Edgar Allan Poe is a guilty pleasure. Overall, I believe that this movie is well done but may not be appreciated by all.
Fantastic, quirky, fun
I saw this film at the release party, at the Magic Bag in Ferndale... it was on cable, and I'd love to own a DVD of it, too! Wonderful, black-comedy / sweet and sappy love story, good acting, I'd say it's #1 at the top of my list of best independent films made in the US in the last 20 years.
