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Crime Wave
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Crime Wave is a 1985 Canadian independent comedy film directed by John Paizs.This very odd movie stars Eva Kovacs as Kim, a 13-year old girl in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Kim is excited when Steven Penny (John Paizs) a would-be screenwriter of "color crime movies", moves into the apartment over the garage. Kim imagines that Steven is a Hollywood big shot, but Steven is an utterly incompetent writer. He keeps coming up with various ridiculous scenarios for his movie Crime Wave, with idiotic beginnings and absurd endings, but can't come up with a middle.Kim develops a schoolgirl crush on Steven and encourages him, but Steven still can't come up with a middle for his movie. Steven is at his lowest ebb when Kim finds a classified ad offering screenwriting help, placed by one C. Jolly. Steven joyfully goes off to meet Mr. Jolly, but it turns out that Jolly has something up his sleeve.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The above description doesn't really convey how weird this movie is, with the hammy acting, the rictus grins, the nonsensical plot, the dime-store special effects...if Ed Wood and David Lynch had ever made a movie together, Crime Wave would be that movie.Not to be confused with Crimewave (one word), a Sam Raimi film that was also released in 1985. | |
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Amazing Freaking Grace: The version of Crime Wave that finally makes Steven a star has him reciting the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" as Jesus appears, right before Steven kills himself. | |
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Canon Welding: In what may be an Imagine Spot or may be a Dream Sequence or may be Through the Eyes of Madness, one scene has Steven hanging out with all the fictional characters from his widely different drafts of Crime Wave. | |
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Brand X: One of Steven's rejected Crime Wave drafts has the protagonist couple getting rich selling "Allway", which obviously is supposed to be glorified pyramid scheme Amway. | |
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