Crazy Mama is a 1975 American action comedy film, directed by Jonathan Demme, produced by Julie Corman and starring Cloris Leachman.

In 1958 Long Beach, California, Melba Stokes is a beauty salon owner, living with her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl.

On the road, heading back to Arkansas to reclaim the family farm, the Stokes women begin a crime spree.

In pursuit of pregnant Cheryl is her boyfriend, Shawn, while Melba meets up with a runaway Texas sheriff, Jim Bob Trotter.

Demme recalled " We were shooting a big gunfight/car crash scene and we had an ambulance standing by, and Julie went into labor.

And our ambulance left with the producer being rushed to hospital to give birth.”[4] Bill Paxton was a set dresser on the film and had his first speaking role in the movie.

"He thought I had totally ruined the movie, that this would be the first Mama film to lose money because it hadn't delivered all the elements.

Factory released the title on DVD, packaged as a double feature with The Lady In Red, as part of the Roger Corman Cult Classics collection.