Like Crazy
United States
2011
89 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
Like Crazy is a film from and about the heart. Jacob, an American, and Anna, who is British, meet at college in Los Angeles and fall madly in love. It’s the purest kind of romance—they’re each other’s first significant attachment. When Anna returns to London, the couple is forced into a long-distance relationship. Their perfect love is tested, and youth, trust, and geography become their biggest enemies.
Taking a complete tonal departure from his last film, Douchebag, which screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, cowriter/director Drake Doremus poetically reveals the intimate details and daily struggles of Jacob and Anna’s love affair as it stretches between time and distance and changes course. Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones are enthralling in their sweetness and honesty as the young couple. An original, contemplative look at first love, Like Crazy strikes a universal chord as it explores the bittersweet beauty and impermanence of relationships. –Sundance Film Festival
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Giuseppe Sorrentino
8May13
I can see how people generally don't like this: it can be banal in some moments (I am thinking about that broken bracelet) and sometimes the cinematography is a little bit too cheesy. Still: there is sense and truth to the story. It's felt. It can be strong. I would have probably give it a 3 and a half.
Henrique Verkündigung
26Feb13
after 15 minutes it's just boring, this movie could easily be transformed into a short-film without losing anything.
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Daniela Saucedo Garza
24Feb13
I hate when people use the premise of a "modern romance" to justify not talking and avoiding any confrontation. It was really bad. Jennifer Lawrence is the only tiny light on this hipster-feeling film.
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