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Crazy Streets
Product Group: DVD
Studio: Digital 1 Stop
ISBN: B0002B54OY
EAN: 0826831010021
UPC: 826831010021
DVD
Original Release Date: 1987-04-24
Theatrical Release Date: 1987-04-24
Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
SKU: DV0051
Condition: Good
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Customer Reviews
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Desperately Seeking Somebody....
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-10-07
I saw what I believe was the only public theater showing of "Forever Lulu" in the country (check boxofficemojo.com if you don't believe me!)--NYC, circa '87. It was a matinee and I missed the opening credits--a bitter irony, since I was only there to see Debbie Harry and the opening credits are all a close-up of her face, through a viewfinder, posing for still pictures on a bridge. Luckily, I stayed for the beginning of the subsequent showing and got to see the credits after all.
Unluckily, I saw the film in between.
The movie is a trainwreck. There isn't a single joke that works, nor a single moment where you can't feel the director vainly pushing for effect. He never succeeds, and the results are often cringe-inducing. Appearing to be modeled after "Desperate Seeking Susan", "Lulu" captures none of that movie's sense of style or playfulness. While "Susan" encapsulated the best earmarks of its era--New York in the mid eighties--"Lulu", despite its many location shots and forced whackiness, never comes alive or shows us a world we might want to know more about.
Everything about the production feels depressed--even Manhattan looks unhappy. Worse, you get the uneasy feeling that the cast figured out it sucked while the cameras were still rolling. No one onscreen seems to buy what they're doing. I must say that Hanna Shygulla comes off as well as anyone could-- you can tell she can really act, but the failures of the script, alas, are insurmountable. Wisely underacting, she manages to duck the worst of it.
Debbie Harry is totally wasted and was clearly brought on as a "name" to help get financing for the film. The fact that she is listed in the credits as co-starring is patently a joke--she has only one line of dialogue ("nice to meet you!"), maybe 5 minutes of screen time, and as one reviewer pointed out, she does little but "stand around on the periphery of street scenes looking frowsy."
"Lulu" at best is a barely amusing comedy--I might watch it on television on an idle Sunday but never would I recommend anybody buy it--even the staunchest Debbie/Blondie fan. "Union City", "Videodrome," and "Roadie", while slight, are all vastly superior if you crave young Debbie on the silver screen,. But her best acting is undoubtedly in "Heavy" if you want her sad, and of course "Hairspray" if you want her flat-out funny.
Warning--this title is sometimes issued under the title "Crazy Streets", with Alex Baldwin on the cover, or worse--misleading shots of Debbie from her Blondie Days taken a decade earlier than this movie was made. Don't be fooled! It's still crappy old "Lulu"!
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Debbie's first film since Videodrome
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-08-30
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Debbie Harry of Blondie made a very supporting role in this comedy/murder/drama that was a take off of Desperately Seeking Susan. The comedy is weak and Debbie is in about 10 minutes of the film. She looks great in her Stephen Sprouse outfit, but is lost in a movie that tries to be funny but is not and tries to be suspenseful and is not. A stinker in every aspect. Debbie took this role as she was attempting to make a comeback in the music and movie world after taking time off to care for her then boyfriend Chris Stein. So I guess she thought this might be a funny film. Sadly, it was not and the film was one of the worst of 1987. Notable for the film debut of Alec Baldwin and one of the rare English speaking films for German Hanna Schygulla.
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Very Nice Comedy!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-10-07
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This Movie is shot on some of the seedy streets of New York City is about an aspiring novelist Schygulla(Hanna Schygulla) as she accidently becomes involved in a real life mystery involving murder and drugs.In one of Alex Balwins first film appearances as a cop trying to catch the drug dealers with special cameo appearances by Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Deborah Harry,this film is a very nice comedy!!
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forever lulu
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-09-15
2 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
well i had just seen the movie forever lulu and my mother and i loved it so much that we really want to own it and i would love to get it for her as a gift her birthday is coming here in December so if i can find a video 10$and below i will be very happy to make my mother happy thank you have a wonderful day
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