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C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

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• Acquiring the music rights took such an important part of the budget, director and producer Jean-Marc Vallée had to cut his own salary.
  
  
• It took Jean-Marc Vallée 10 years to write this film
  
  
• Based on co-writer François Boulay memories of growing up
  
  

• The music rights cost CND$600 000.
  
  
• This is the official Canadian entry for the "Best Foreign Language Film" category at the 2005 Academy Awards.
  
  
• Even though the movie's dialogue was in French, for the theatrical release in France, subtitles were added for viewers who cannot understand Québécois French.
  
  

• SPOILER: The movie title "C.R.A.Z.Y." has in fact two references. First, the famous hit song from Patsy Cline, singer whose father Gervais Beaulieu is "crazy" about. And more importantly, each letter represents the first letter of the couple's sons first names, in order from the oldest to the youngest (Christian, Raymond, Antoine, Zachary and Yvan). This fact, never revealed by the father, is discovered midway through the film by Zac Beaulieu then, after the end titles, by the viewers.
  
  

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