Lunatics: A Love Story

Lunatics: A Love Story

87 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Jan. 1, 1991

In the seedy part of Los Angeles, a man who writes poetry has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions involving sadistic doctors, rappers, and spiders. A woman who seems to jinx things by wanting to help is dumped by her boyfriend and finds herself penniless on the streets, and soon runs afoul of a local gang. Due to a telephone glitch, the man calls her at a phone booth trying to dial a "talk line" and invites her to his place. There they must help each other to overcome their respective problems.

Lunatics: A Love Story

87 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Jan. 1, 1991

Lunatics: A Love Story
In the seedy part of Los Angeles, a man who writes poetry has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions involving sadistic doctors, rappers, and spiders. A woman who seems to jinx things by wanting to help is dumped by her boyfriend and finds herself penniless on the streets, and soon runs afoul of a local gang. Due to a telephone glitch, the man calls her at a phone booth trying to dial a "talk line" and invites her to his place. There they must help each other to overcome their respective problems.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Renaissance Pictures
Original title Lunatics: A Love Story
Directors Susan D. Jollife, Josh Becker, John Cameron
Writers Josh Becker

Cast

Ted Raimi

as Hank Stone

Deborah Foreman

as Nancy

George Aguilar

as Comet

Brian McCree

as Presto

Eddy Roumaya

as Joker

Michelle Stacey

as Billboard Woman

John Hardy

as Mr. Jackson

Anna Aycox

as Mailwoman

Carol Vernon

as Mrs. Rabinowitz

Josefa Rigial

as Mrs. Ramiriz

Philip A. Gillis

as Desk Clerk

Reginald Abrams

as Rapper #1

Robert Lee Walker

as Rapper #2

Wilbert Lawrence Hines

as Rapper #3

Robert Grossman

as Drunk

Von Washington

as Ticket Seller

John Cameron

as Edgar Allen Poe

Annette Sinclair

as Blonde

Henrietta Hermelin

as Hank’s Mom

John Saunders

as Uncle Al (voice)

Keegan-Michael Key

as Passerby (uncredited)