Crazy People

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Cяazy People
Warning: Crazy People are coming.
Directed by	Tony Bill
Produced by	Thomas Brand Robert K. Weiss
Written by	Mitch Markowitz
Starring	Dudley Moore Daryl Hannah Paul Reiser J.T. Walsh Danton Stone
Music by	Cliff Eidelman
Cinematography	Victor J. Kemper
Editing by	Mia Goldman
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	April 13, 1990 (USA)
Running time	91 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Crazy People is a 1990 movie starring Dudley Moore as a burnt out advertising executive whose mental breakdown lands him in a psychiatric hospital. With time on his hand, the man quickly recovers his mental health and is inspired to make truthful advertisements, such as in an ad for Volvo, which proclaims "Buy Volvos. They're boxy but they're good." In the sanitarium he falls in love with Kathy (Daryl Hannah), a fellow patient, and transforms the place into a branch of the advertising industry, where other mental patients come up with wild, often funny advertising slogans, like "Forget Paris. Come to Greece. We're nicer," for a Greek travel agency. The movie closes with George (David Paymer), a patient who speaks only in variations of "Hello" (e.g., "Hello, how the flip are you?"), singing the "Hello" parts of "Hello, Hello, Hello! What a wonderful word, Hello."

The movie was released on VHS and Laserdisc (now out of print) in late 1990, and on widescreen DVD in 2004. The soundtrack featured the song "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" by Mötley Crüe.

[edit] Trivia

A parody Sony commercial was part of the movie. The tagline was "Sony - because Caucasians are just too damn tall".
The movie was directed by Tony Bill but the commercials featured in it were directed by Barry L. Young.