Product: Crazy in Alabama [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Alabama Summer
Crazy in Alabama takes place in the mid to late sixties, Peter Joseph or P-Joe is staying for the summer with his uncle at his funeral parlor when finally after years of psychological, physical, and emotional abuse from her husband drives his Aunt Lucille to poison and decapitate him. She then begins to make her way to Las Angeles to become a movie star, meanwhile P-Joe witnesses the sheriff murder a black boy whose father is a freind to his uncle. P-Joe wrestles with what he should do, keep quite and not be ostrasizied or confess. The sheriff offers to not pursue his aunt if P-Joe keeps quite, and both him and his uncle are approached by the FBI and told that they can be protected but not with the sheriff unscathed. During his Aunt's trial P-Joe admits in open court that the sheriff offered to forget his Aunt's case if he said nothing about the murder, in the end the pool which was to be integrated is cemented in by the powers that be. A very good movie.