Tim Allen, the comedian, wasn't always a movie star. He used to be in advertising, then was sent to prison for drug possession (left). He avoided a life sentence by being a witness and helping to arrest drug dealers. That was back in the late 1970s. We all know that he became an actor. Comedy worked for him after he discovered he could make people laugh as a stand up comedian. Many television shows and family movies later, he directs a comedy about an ex-con trying to get back into mainstream society.

The movie is Crazy on the Outside's Allen's directorial debut and the subject is something that he's deeply familiar with. Turning his story into something that people can enjoy as a comedy movie. In a way, it is Allen's own coming to terms with his past and openly sharing it with his audience as his own way of saying, "Yeah, I'm an ex-con, but I'm a filmmaker now, and my past is nothing more than a story that we all can learn from."

Yes, Crazy on the Outside is pure Tim Allen and it's his opening up to the world - turning his bad past into something good. If you search the web on "Tim Allen criminal record" or "Tim Allen prison term" you'd see a lot of links and you realize that people are curious and it's likely Allen has had people coming up to him asking about his being an ex-con. Crazy on the Outside is Allen's final answer and he's inviting people to watch his moviel.

In Crazy on the Outside, Allen has to deal with the problem of hiding the truth from the people close to him, specifically his grandmother, who believes he spend several years in France. There's also the problem of staying away from a life of crime and deceit as his past comes back to haunt him. Allen's character goes through many of the situations that real ex-cons go through after being released from prison In a way, the movie is all about acceptance and forgiveness and finding new life after learning from the past. In this case, it's Allen's own past.

Crazy on the Outside also stars Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta, and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

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