Cool and the Crazy

TV Movie
1994
R
1h 24m

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Alicia Silverstone and Jared Leto in Cool and the Crazy (1994)

Unhappily married couple Roslyn and Michael lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.Unhappily married couple Roslyn and Michael lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.Unhappily married couple Roslyn and Michael lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.

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The first, and to date, only feature-length live-action, non-rotoscoped film directed by Ralph Bakshi.

Quotes
Joannie: Listen, Roslyn, I've been thinking.
Roslyn: After what I just heard, you were not thinking.
Joannie: Come on, come on. This is serious. This is our lives, not some dress rehearsal. I'm tired of being some slave. I spent my whole life watching my mother cook and clean, never leave the house, never leave the valley. She died looking a hundred. She was only 45. She started out just like us - love in Hollywood High. Next thing you know, there's no money, no love, nothing. She raised all of us. So what? She broke her ass like a Mexican maid, and maybe every two weeks, she'd scrape together a few pennies for a hair set and wash, reading her Hollywood magazines for her high on Hollywood boulevard next to the studios. Big deal.
Roslyn: You're having an affair, aren't you?
Joannie: We have to live before we die. We're kids playing mothers to kids... and that includes our so-called husbands.

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Edited into Rebel Highway: Cool and the Crazy (1994)

Soundtracks
I'm Walking
Written by David Bartholomew (as Dave Bartholomew) and Fats Domino (as Antoine Domino)
Published by EMI Unart Catalog Inc.
Performed by Blues Traveler
Courtesy of A&M Records

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5/10

An Odd Film About Infidelity

Unhappily married couple Roslyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Michael (Jared Leto) lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.

This was one of the last films from American International Pictures, produced by Lou Arkoff and Debra Hill. The director was Ralph Bakshi, who had made his name with "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic".

Some credit should be given for the casting, as both leads have now gone on to bigger things and most likely few people have ever seen or even heard of this picture (hardly a gem).

What is most strange is the morality of the narrative. Cheating is not so much a bad thing in itself (according to this film), but bad when things turn violent with the competition. So, I guess, if married women choose better men to have affairs with, the whole thing is no big deal...