'Cool and the Crazywas made for the cable television network Showtime in 1994 by cult director Ralph Bakshi.
Because premium cable was still in its early stages, it was not noticed when it first aired on September 16th 1994, and despite it's big-name director and early appearances by future stars Jared Leto and Alicia Silverstone, the film is not well-known today.
The screenplay, written by Bakshi during the late 1960s/early 1970s, under the working title If I Catch Her I'll Kill Her, is about a young couple in their early '20s, married, and with a child, who both lead separate affairs.
This film is not to be confused with William Witney's 1958 film The Cool and the Crazy. That film, also distributed by American International Pictures, is an anti-drug picture along the lines of Reefer Madness.
Dealing as it does with young marrieds and their second thoughts, the script would seem to be full of anguished regret as the central couple drifts apart and is disappointed in their ill-advised rush towards marriage.
Thus Cool and the Crazy destroys whatever chance we have of investing in the story by undercutting it with its approach, and the result is that we're as disconnected from the story as the visuals are.
Nobody at distributor Dimension seems to have worried too much about the quality of this disc: Cool and the Crazy's fullscreen transfer (faithful to its Showtime origins) has been so lazily handled that detail can barely be glimpsed through the screen-door pixellation.
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