![]() His main concern regarding the move is about how his records will fare.Īfter the moving men cart off his collection, Robert is distracted from He invites Jesse to visit him in France, but With whom Robert has become reacquainted after abandoning his family to Robert is shown drawing with Sophie and Jesse, his son with Dana, All three brothers mention theĪuthoritarian behavior of their father and talk about the comic booksĬharles made them make when they were children. Life in a dilapidated hotel, meditating, begging on the street, and Maxon, who has a seizure disorder he says is triggered by feelings of sexual arousal, lives an ascetic Longer draws, has never lived on his own, and takes prescription p sychiatric medications to help stabilize his mental state (he committed suicide before the film was released). (Robert's two sisters declined to be interviewed for the film).Ĭharles, who Robert acknowledges as his main artistic influence, no With his mother Beatrice, older brother Charles, and younger brother Maxon Much informationĪbout Robert's childhood is derived from scenes of him in conversation Provide additional insights into his personality. Robert's ex-wife Dana andĮx-girlfriends Kathy Goodell and Dian Hanson Who also discuss the controversy surrounding many of Robert'sĭepictions of women and African-Americans. ![]() We learn about Robert's career through interviews with his contemporaries Don Donahue, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith, and Trina Robbins, as well as critics Robert Hughes and Deirdre English, Work, and interacting with friends and family. Surroundings at cafés and on sidewalks, attending an exhibition of his He begins a speech at an art school by mentioning the three things he is probably best known for (those being the " Keep on Truckin'" strip from 1968, the Cheap Thrills (1968) album cover, and Fritz the Cat), before spending much of the rest of the film detailing his distaste for modern American consumerist cultureĪnd his darkly cynical perspective on life. "Who's Harry Crumb?" contains some profanity and some brief titillation.Robert Crumb, a pioneer in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, collects 78-rpm blues records from the 1920s and '30s and is moving soon with his wife (fellow comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb) and daughter ( Sophie) to a house in southern France that he is trading for some of his sketchbooks. All too much of "Who's Harry Crumb?" looks as if it should have been called "Who Cares?" Shawnee Smith, as Candy's teen accomplice, looks like the younger sister of "Spaceballs' " Daphne Zuniga. It's a long way from her goody-two-shoes role on "Designing Women," and there are times when she looks like Madonna's older sister, the one who could probably act. ![]() Much better is Annie Potts as the scheming sexpot wife willing to switch allegiance at the drop of a new checking account. The laughs are few and far between, even with Candy resorting to occasional disguises, and the humor has a depressing sense of de'ja` ha-ha. He remains a jovial character actor, but asking him to carry any film on those broad shoulders is a bit too much. "Who's Harry Crumb?" might have worked as a 20-minute skit, but the script (by Robert Conte and Peter Martin Wortmann) and the direction (by another SCTV alumnus, Paul Flaherty) are both sadly undernourished, which is certainly not the case with Candy. When the California Draisen concocts a scheme that involves kidnaping his biggest client's daughter to get $10 million so he can run off with that same client's money-hungry wife, he calls in Crumb, assuming that his incompetence will reinforce rather than hinder the plan. Harry Crumb, the last in a large line of detectives, has been exiled from the family agency for a decade while the smarmy Eliot Draisen (the smarmy Jeffrey Jones) runs the business in Los Angeles. Oblivious to his own ineptitude, Candy/Crumb resorts to slight gags and punchless lines to solve every mystery except the obvious one: Why can't anyone from the SCTV comedy troupe make the transition to the big screen? Candy is Crumb, a bumbling detective who makes Henri Clouseau look like Sherlock Holmes. ![]() Who could resist the temptation to call "Who's Harry Crumb?" a crummy movie? Certainly no one who's been unfortunate enough to see this lumbering vehicle for portly comedian John Candy. ![]() ‘Who’s Harry Crumb?’ (PG-13) By Richard Harrington ![]()
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