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CRAZY - The Story of Guitar Legend Hank Garland

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October 17, 2008

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CRAZY, an independent feature film inspired by the tragic life and groundbreaking music of legendary 1950s-era guitarist Hank Garland, will have a limited theatrical release – beginning October 17 – at Regal Theatres and Carmike Theatres in Nashville. CRAZY chronicles Hank Garland’s rise to fame in Music City, from playing on hits for icons including Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison through his brief but influential solo career as a visionary jazz artist. It also explores his tempestuous marriage and repeated clashes with the Nashville’s country music establishment over artist’s rights, civil rights and other issues. The car crash and electroshock treatments that eventually ended Garland’s performing career and derailed his life are starkly portrayed, and the enormity of what was lost is deeply felt.

The film, which stars Waylon Payne (Walk The Line) as Garland and Ali Larter (Heroes) as his wife Evelyn, has been winning major festival awards throughout 2008. CRAZY also earned Best Feature honors at the Long Island Int’l Film Festival, Big Island Film Festival and the Hoboken Film Festival, Best of Show at NC’s Real To Reel Int’l Film Festival, Best Narrative Feature Audience Choice Award at the Sacramento Film & Music Festival, Best U.S. Feature Film at the Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival and Jury Award for Best Feature at the Charleston International Film Festival. Other recognition includes the Daily News Award for Best Screenplay – for a script co-written by CRAZY’s director Rick Bieber, Jason Ehlers and Brent Boyd – at the Method Fest in Calabasas, CA, Best Cinematography at the Boston Int’l Film Festival and Best Soundtrack at the Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival. On an especially meaningful note, CRAZY won the top Vanguard Award at Florida’s Jacksonville Int’l Film Festival – Hank Garland lived the last four decades of his life near Jacksonville with his brother (and manager) Billy Garland and Billy’s wife Amy, who attended the festival.

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  Dates:
  October 17, 2008

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  Friday 8:00pm

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  Regal Theatres and Carmike Theatres

  Nashville, TN

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