Mobile Failure  Misguided Crazy in Alabama is all over the map
Based on his directorial debut, there are three things we can
safely say about Antonio Banderas: 1) He's an actor's director
-- he can pick a good cast and coax great performances from
them; 2) he knows how to make a good image and where to point
the camera; 3) he has absolutely no idea how to choose his
material.  Crazy in Alabama, set in 1965, is based on a book
that probably should have remained unfilmed, or at least been
adapted by someone with a better cinematic sense than its own
author, who has never written a screenplay before. To call the
big-screen version Thelma & Louise meets To Kill a Mockingbird
is accurate in the most literal sense; it's as if someone
physically took both of those movies and interspliced them
together -- the way Roger Corman used to buy cheap existing
footage, then splice it in with some footage of his own and add
a voice-over narration that desperately tried to make sense of
the resultant collage. Either one of th