Crazy Six
Appearance
Crazy Six | |
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Directed by | Albert Pyun |
Written by | Galen Yuen |
Produced by | Tom Karnowski Gary Schmoeller |
Starring | Rob Lowe Mario Van Peebles Ice-T Burt Reynolds |
Cinematography | George Mooradian |
Edited by | Natasha Gjurokovic |
Music by | Anthony Riparetti |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Countries | United States Slovakia |
Language | English |
Crazy Six is a 1998 American-Slovak crime film starring Rob Lowe, Mario Van Peebles, Ice-T, and Burt Reynolds. It was directed by Albert Pyun.
Plot
A decade after the fall of communism, a section of Eastern Europe known as "Crimeland" becomes a trade route for drugs and weapons. Crazy Six and his friends rob a plutonium deal involving Raul in order to obtain money for their drug habits but Raul hunts them down.
Cast
- Rob Lowe as Billie, a.k.a. Crazy Six
- Mario Van Peebles as Dirty Mao
- Ice-T as Raul
- Burt Reynolds as Dakota
- Ivana Milicevic as Anna
- Thom Matthews as Andrew
- Blanka Kleinova as Viyana
- Norbert Weisser as Jerzy
- Donald Standen as Avi
- Max Van Peebles as Michelle
- Thomas Morris as Yusovic
Production
Filming took place in the Slovak Republic in 1997.[1]
Release
The film was released direct-to-video in the United States on July 28, 1998.
Reception
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."[2]