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Crimewave (1985)

Name: Crimewave
Director: Sam Raimi
Genre: comedy film
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 5.5

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 Campbell 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…

Directed by Sam Raimi · 83 min

Behind the scenes

Bruce Campbell on "Crimewave" — filmSCHOOLarchive · 15 min
Reed Birney on "Crimewave" — filmSCHOOLarchive · 15 min
Teenage Credit Card Scammers Stealing From the Rich | Crimewave — VICE · 7 min

Elsewhere

More by Sam Raimi

The Kingkiller Chronicle
Spider-Man in film
It's Murder! — 1977
Within the Woods — 1978
Clockwork — 1978
The Evil Dead — 1981
Evil Dead II — 1987
Darkman — 1990
Army of Darkness — 1992
The Quick and the Dead — 1995
A Simple Plan — 1998
For Love of the Game — 1999
The Gift — 2000
Spider-Man — 2002
Spider-Man 2 — 2004
Spider-Man 3 — 2007
Spider-Man 2.1 — 2007
Drag Me to Hell — 2009
Oz the Great and Powerful — 2013
The Black Ghiandola — 2017
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — 2022
Send Help — 2026

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