Crazy on the Outside Movie
Crazy on the Outside is a 2010 comedy film starring and directed by Tim Allen. This is Allen’s first time directing, and is notable for reuniting Allen with co-stars from many of his previous films (Weaver from Galaxy Quest, Liotta from Wild Hogs, Grammer from Toy Story 2 and Bowen from Joe Somebody).
Crazy on the Outside centers on a fresh out of jail parolee (Tim Allen) who finds out that life outside his prison cell is much more complicated than he was expecting, especially when he starts spending time with his eccentric sister (Sigourney Weaver) and all the crazy people in and around her life.
The fact that Tim Allen’s directorial debut is being released by a truly indie studio is one of countless indications of Hollywood belt-tightening. Just a couple years ago, regardless of the movie’s quality, you can imagine Touchstone Pictures putting out Crazy. You did hear we won’t be seeing Allen, Travolta and company in the now-cancelled Wild Hogs 2, right? Seems to be a lot of story ingredients at work here, and I can’t shake the notion that the movie looks as if it were made in the 1990s. The whole “he’s been in France” thing seems to be a distraction from the foregone conclusion that the ex-con winds up with Rene Russo — I mean, Jeanne Tripplehorn.