Guncrazy

Stars: Drew Barrymore (Poison Ivy, Sketch Artist, TV's "2000 Malibu Road"), James LeGros (Where the Day Takes You, Drugstore Cowboy), Ione Skye (Wayne's World, Say Anything), Billy Drago (The Untouchables). Originally "sneak-previewed" on Showtime (but purportedly being released theatrically in early 1993), Guncrazy is a Bonnie and Clyde wannabe for the 90s which has none of the panache, wit, or style of the film that inspired it. Drew Barrymore stars as Anita Minteer, a California girl living in a sexually abusive relationship with her mother's boyfriend (mom left for the city). After striking up a pen-pal acquaintance with jailbird Howard Hickok (LeGros), she becomes inordinately fond of guns. Before long she drills her mother's abusive boyfriend, hides the body, and lands a preacher's assistant job for the soon-to-be-paroled Howard. Once Howard is sprung, things start to go wrong for the couple: Howard has sexual problems (like Clyde), Anita's old boyfriends show up at a bad time, and...well...before you know it, people just start gettin' shot. With both eyes looking directly at the teen audience, the filmmakers portray Anita and Howard as misunderstood lovers whose love would flourish just fine and dandy if only society would let them have their guns and occasionally shoot someone. A lazy, derivative, predictable, and boring film., brightened only momentarily by Billy Drago's performance as the whacked-out preacher. Audience: Misunderstood teens; potential serial killers; anyone who seriously liked the mistitled 1986 Emilio Estevez/Demi Moore vehicle Wisdom.