1998 film directed by Albert Pyun
Crazy Six
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Directed by
| Albert Pyun
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Written by
| Galen Yuen
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Produced by
| Tom Karnowski
Gary Schmoeller
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Starring
| Rob Lowe
Mario Van Peebles
Ice-T
Burt Reynolds
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Cinematography
| George Mooradian
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Edited by
| Natasha Gjurokovic
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Music by
| Anthony Riparetti
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Production
company
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- Filmwerks
- Imperial Entertainment
- Weapon of Choice Inc.
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Distributed by
| Sterling Entertainment Group
(US)
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Release date
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- July 28, 1998
(
1998-07-28
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(USA)
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Running time
| 94 minutes
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Country
| United States
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Language
| English
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Crazy Six
is a 1998 American
gangster film
directed by
Albert Pyun
and starring
Rob Lowe
,
Mario Van Peebles
,
Ice-T
,
Ivana Mili?evi?
and
Burt Reynolds
. It was released
direct-to-video
in the United States on July 29, 1998.
Plot
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A decade after the fall of
communism
, a section of
Eastern Europe
known as "Crimeland" becomes a trade route for
drugs
and
weapons
. Billie "Crazy Six" and his friends rob a
plutonium
deal involving Raul in order to obtain money for their drug habits with the aid of "Dirty" Mao, who cheats them out of the money in the end. Raul is given 48 hours by his boss to recover the goods and begins by hunting them down at a local
club
, injuring the
singer
Anna and killing Andrew's girlfriend Viyana.
The American
detective
Dakota interviews Anna, leading him to Billie. Anna is kidnapped by Raul's men and forced to smoke
crack
. Billie and Andrew rob "Dirty" Mao's hideout and recover the money. Dakota follows them to the exchange with Raul, but so does "Dirty" Mao. After a
gunfight
between Dakota and Raul's men, "Dirty" Mao kills Raul and attempts to frame Billie for it but is shot and killed by Dakota.
In the end, Dakota adopts "Dirty" Mao's
dog
, Anna returns to singing, and Billie gets clean.
Cast
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Production
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The screenplay originally took place in
San Francisco
, but was rewritten after the production moved to
Slovakia
[1]
to save money.
Crazy Six
was the only feature film written by Galen Yuen, a former gang member-turned-character actor.
[2]
On the podcast
Magnificent Jerk,
Yuen's niece and
Washington Post
reporter Maya Lin Sugarman attests that the film was at least partially
autobiographical
.
[3]
Release
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The film was released direct-to-video in the United States on July 28, 1998.
Reception
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Nathan Rabin of
The A.V. Club
wrote that "Lowe is predictably awful" yet "despite Lowe's performance,
Crazy Six
is palatable, with Pyun giving the film an appropriately seedy aura of glamorous decay."
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References
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