Crazy People

Crazy People is a 1990 American black comedy film starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah, directed by Tony Bill, and music by Cliff Eidelman.

He designs a series of "truthful" advertisements, blunt and bawdy and of no use to his boss Drucker's firm.

Emory goes into group therapy under the care of Dr. Liz Baylor and meets other voluntary patients, such as the lovely and vulnerable Kathy Burgess.

He assigns Stephen and the rest of his employees to design similar new ad campaigns featuring so-called honesty in advertising, but nothing works.

He insists that his fellow mental patients also be involved and suitably rewarded for their work, transforming the sanitarium into a branch of the advertising industry.

The patients experience happiness at being needed and improve from their various illnesses, including George, who begins to speak.

Drucker and the doctor in charge of the hospital get greedy and try to separate the team, but it doesn't work.

Mitch Markowitz was the initial director, but was fired 3 days into production and replaced by Tony Bill.

[3] The movie's uncredited producer Sydney Pollack replaced Malkovich with Dudley Moore.

[6] Roger Ebert envisioned a call from the fictional Movie Police in his review: "Excuse me, sir.