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Guncrazy

1992 American film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Guncrazy is a 1992 American independent romantic crime drama film inspired by the 1950 film Gun Crazy. It was directed by Tamra Davis in her feature film directorial debut, written by Matthew Bright, and starring Drew Barrymore and James LeGros. Davis had read the script in 1985, but filming did not begin until November 1991. The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 1992, and aired on Showtime beginning later that year. It had a limited theatrical release in January 1993.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Guncrazy” as 1992 American film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Guncrazy, American and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1950, 1985, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Guncrazy, American and film providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1950, 1985 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guncrazy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.