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Driving Me Crazy

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Director(s)	Nick Broomfield
Release Date	1988
Runtime	85 min
Format(s)	DVD
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

In 1988, Nick Broomfield was asked by a Tele Munich, a German production company, to document the making of a musical show by Andre Heller, "Body & Soul," an all-black revival of the music, dance and songs of the thirties and forties. Broomfield agreed under certain conditions (concerning money and schedule) but when he arrived in New York to start filming everything had changed: the budget had been cut down, the time frame changed, and the producers were not willing to keep any of their promises.

But instead of walking out of the job, Broomfield stayed on and began making a film about his desperate attempts to produce the documentary: he filmed telephone conversations, meetings and verbal fights with his producers, each of his failed attempts to get in touch with the money people, and sometimes he even followed the progress of the show.