Crazy Eyes (DVD REVIEW)
Crazy Eyes
DVD
Review by Kam Williams
Playboy Finally
Meets His Match in Platonic Romantic Romp
This
picture’s opening sounds, superficially, like a typical Dragnet episode. Set in
L.A., it starts
with a voiceover announcing that what you are about to see is true. However,
that’s where the similarities between the classic TV series and Crazy Eyes
begin and end, since the latter is an offbeat romantic romp rather than a
sobering crime story narrated by a glum gumshoe.
Here, the
protagonist, Zach (Lukas Haas), is a wealthy playboy
who boasts about having 4½ women on speed dial should he find himself in the
mood for a booty call. That self-indulgent lifestyle doesn’t sit well with his
ex-wife (Moran Atias), since it results in his forgetting when he’s supposed to
take custody of their son (Blake Garrett) sorely in need of quality time with
his emotionally-unavailable dad.
Zach’s
also routinely nagged by a persistent black girlfriend (Regine Nehy) who keeps
calling from the East Coast. She’s so desperate for a visit or at least a
little phone sex that she seductively whispers “I love you” into the receiver,
ignoring his begging to leave him alone.
Besides
being surrounded by frustrated females, Zach has a substance problem, too.
That’s not much of a surprise, given that his best friend, Dan (Jake Busey), is
a bartender and his primary enabler. After hours, they’re fond of doing lines
of coke in his hot tub with loose ladies they pick up at the club.
The plot
thickens the day Zach meets Rebecca (Madeline Zima), an attractive, if
uncoordinated lush he decides to refer to as Crazy Eyes. She’s able to resist
his considerable seductive powers, ostensibly holding out because he’s promised
to take her to an art gallery exhibiting the work of Hieronymus Bosch.
Rather
than find someone else to sleep with, Zach inexplicably becomes intrigued and
what ensues is an ill-advised dating ritual marked by overindulgence, passing
out inebriated together, totaling a car, a DUI and intermittent barfing. Will
Rebecca get to see Bosch? Will Zach ever get lucky? Will they ever clean up their
acts?
Sadly,
none of the above is necessarily important to a couple of decadent drunks
already in Drunk Heaven.
Good (2 stars)
Unrated
Running time: 96
minutes
Distributor: Strand Releasing
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