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Crimewave(Movie, 1985)

PG-13
| 1h 23min | Genres: Comedy, Crime
CrimewaveRating: 2.8/5 (with 5555 votes)
Crimewave is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, from a screenplay he co-wrote with the Coen brothers. It stars Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Louise Lasser and Bruce Campbell, with the latter also serving as a co-producer. An unusual slapstick mix of film noir, black comedy, Hitchcockian suspense, and B-movie conventions, Crimewave portrays bizarre situations involving a nebbish everyman (Birney) entangled in a murderous plot while pursuing his love interest (Wilson). Following the commercial success of The Evil Dead (1981), Raimi and Campbell decided to collaborate on another project. Joel Coen of ... ()
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About Crimewave

Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 17 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/25/1986 (World premiere: 04/12/1985)
Director: Sam Raimi
Producer: Rob Tapert
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Onda de Crime"
"Ola de crímenes, ola de risas"
"Mort sur le gril"
"Ring - Så Mördar Vi!"
"XYZ Murders"
Budget: 3,000,000 USD

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