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A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus' film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how... read more read more... your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa. Like Crazy explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart. -- (C) Paramount

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PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Drake Doremus

Release Date: October 28, 2011

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  • katykern8261
    May 22, 2012
    katykern8261
    Directed (co-written) by Drake Doremus, Paramount Vantage, 2011. Starring Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence and Alex Kingston.

    Genre: Drama, Romance.

    Question: When was the last time you fell in love? I mean really fell in love? If you can't remember perhaps ... read moreyou should watch Like Crazy and recall that special time when the one person sitting across from you makes you happier than you can possibly imagine. If you haven't fallen in love yet, you should see this movie. It will inspire you to know love is worth it.

    I have a favorite word: Always. For me it represents the power of what love can be for us humans. When you are truly in love - you always have a person to be there for you whether it be when you are happy, sad, silly or just existing. When you find true love, you always have the ability to see beyond any struggle. When you meet your soul-mate they don't make you happy, they always make you happier. See where I am going with this? Always equals love for me. When you have true, real love, you find the possibility of greatness beyond measure and that is something that should always keep you looking for that one person...that's just right for you. Like Crazy showed that type of love and it made me smile.

    A couple of months ago I posted the preview for Like Crazy and have been counting down the days until it opened. Something about that preview just spoke to me. (Yes, it showed a little too much) So on this misty, sometimes rainy day, I finally saw this film. It ended up being the sweetest, most tender tales of love I have seen on film in ages.

    Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones star in this love story as two college seniors who meet towards the end of their academic careers and fall madly in love. It begins with a note from one to the other and soon the possibility begins. It always does. I was mesmerized by the level of realistic passion these two characters felt for each other. When together they fit like perfect puzzle pieces, but when apart they feign happily existing but really long to be to with one another. I found myself getting teary-eyed during the longing scenes. Have you ever missed someone so much that you just don't feel whole without them? That is exactly what these two people felt. It was heartbreaking at parts.

    Not a lot happens in this story but it was a lovely one just the same. Two people meet, fall in love, are pulled apart, struggle to move on but can't and eventually they try....wait! I am not going to tell you. All I will talk about Like Crazy now is the acting. It was superb. I really felt that these two were in love because of the ease of it, the sweetness of it and an overwhelming desire, that I think everyone in the theatre probably thought, to feel like them with someone. Who doesn't want to be in love like that?

    Do you have that person that always makes you smile just thinking about them?

    My favorite thing: So many things, actually, but I suppose I will choose that part of it was filmed in London - my favorite place in the entire world.

    My least favorite: I am going to keep this one to myself.

    Rating: PG-13
    Length: 90 minutes

    Review: 8 out of 10
  • itsjustme2004
    April 13, 2012
    itsjustme2004
    After seeing so many great critic reviews when this movie was in theaters, I expected something really wonderful. I was less than enthralled. The movie jumps around a lot, seems to drag on, and the ending is just plain unsatisfying. The young actors are very good, however. Possib... read morely, the directing style just didn't appeal to me. It did make for wonderful, romantic previews.
  • Redlats
    April 2, 2012
    Redlats
    Anna (a Brit) and Jacob (American) fall in love during university and move in together. But as Anna overstays her education visa, they are kept apart for long periods by various government regulations. Does their love overcome the obstacles?
  • lewiskendell
    March 13, 2012
    lewiskendell
    (Full review later.)
  • fb100001048934982
    March 13, 2012
    fb100001048934982
    'Like Crazy' is your typical sad love story with some pretty strong elements and good acting. It packs a good emotional punch and seems to be very honest. The run-time is brisk enough for the film to not get too boring and the script is well written. But you can only watch so man... read morey of these movies without witnessing the same filmmaking elements. It is a solid portrayal of a modern relationship, but it never feels entirely original as it progresses.
  • LWOODS04
    March 6, 2012
    LWOODS04
    Cast: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Finola Hughes, Chris Messina, Ben York Jones, Jamie Thomas King, Keeley Hazell, Natalie Blair, Edurne Ganem

    Director: Drake Doremus

    Summary: American Jacob (Anton Yelchin) a... read morend British Anna (Felicity Jones) meet and fall madly in love at college in Los Angeles, but must make their relationship work long distance when Anna returns to London. With an ocean between them, their trust is tested, forcing them to confront the idea that their love may be impermanent. Or can it survive against the odds? This romantic drama won the Grand Jury Dramatic prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

    My Thoughts: "I've said it before, I am not a huge fan of most romantic flicks. I find most of them to be untrue and cheesy. Not the case with this film. It's more human and honest, but still there are moments were it dragged on far too long with empty stares. I found Jacob and Anna most interesting when they weren't together. The relationship just didn't seem like it should work. I liked Jacob more with Sam. I just believed their relationship more then I did his and Anna's. For some of us there is a relationship that comes and you just can't get away from it. That is the case in this film. Wanting someone or something so badly that your blinded by why it didn't work in the first place so you keep repeating yourself. I didn't care for the ending either. So although I found it more honest then most romantic films, I still think it was on the boring side. The acting was great though."
  • jennifxu
    December 20, 2011
    jennifxu
    This one reminds me a lot of last year's Ondine (with Colin Farrell). It's ostensibly not about much - just portraying a tangly couple in love that actually treat each other rather crappily while not in view of the counterpart - but what it does it does really, really well. And t... read morehe fact that these two are torn apart for the rest of their lives on the sheer fact because they can't stay away from each other, like Romeo and Juliet, is a pretty clever premise. Thy cup runneth over. Short and simple.
  • sanjurosamurai
    December 11, 2011
    sanjurosamurai
    what a frustrating film. very well acted by its two rising stars, with solid dialogue and a strong romantic vibe, the film turns out to be a love story about two people who dont actually love each other very much as neither is willing to do what it takes to make their relationsh... read moreip actually have meaning. i loved the cast, but the story is essentially told in one montage after another to save running time and to keep us from the more sordid details of just how scandalous these two characters actually are. a decent watch but not a must see.
  • 5oclockcoffee
    December 9, 2011
    5oclockcoffee
    "Fat Charlie the Archangel
    Sliped into the room
    He said I have no opinion about this
    And I have no opinion about that
    Sad as a lonely little wrinkled balloon
    He said well I don't claim to be happy about this, boys
    And I don't seem to be happy about that";


    Jacob and Anna meet in... read more college and fall in love. He is a furniture design major and she is a British journalism student in LA. When she is supposed to get back to UK due to her visa expiration, she decides to stay for the summer. Autumn comes and Anna goes back home for a wedding. One week later, in return to USA, immigration officials ban her and send her back to London. Time zones, missed calls, lives that take different roads. Love, pain and the inability to move on.


    "Fat Charlie the Archangel
    Files for divorce
    He says well this will eat up a year of my life
    And then there's all that weight to be lost
    She says the joke is on me
    I say the joke is on her
    I said I have no opinion about that
    Well, we'll just have to wait and confer"


    These lyrics are from "Crazy Love, Vol. II", one of the songs of Paul Simon's album "Graceland" that both Jacob and Anna love. This is the only Paul Simon song in the soundtrack, but even if doesn't have a major significance in the film - I can not remember in which scenes I heard it - reading about it (at songfacts.com), I can see that the song says a lot about Jacob and Anna's relationship. Siimon explains in an interview that one of the reasons of the "Vol. I" in the title is that the song talks about "a love that has started and stopped more than once". Simon also says that the 'Fat Charlie the Archangel" doesn't represent anyone, but my first thought on it is, of course, that the fat Charlie the Archangel represents the cupid. There's a strong symbolism of cupid and fate in Jacob and Anna's relationship: "I don't want no part of this crazy love, I don't want no part of your", but there's nothing they can do about it.

    While watching "Like Crazy", three movies came to my mind. First, it reminds me of John Stockwell' s Crazy/Beautiful not only because of the title, but mostly because of the images of the couple in LA, at the beach, their intimacy, their photos and Nicole's diary versus Anna's "book". If Anna and Jacob's obstacles are the distance and the laws, to Nicole and Carlos (characters of "Crazy/Beautiful") the obstacles are the cultural conflict and class differences. But that's all; the similarities finish here. I can't put these two films side by side. In the other hand, I see "Like Crazy";, "Blue Valentine" and "Un Amour de Jeunesse" as three views of the same subject: the growth and the decline of love.

    For lots of people, Jacob and Anna's love is not convincing. I did believe it, but I had the feeling that something was out of place. I read someone saying that they exist as concepts and not as human beings, and, then, everything makes sense. I couldn't say it better. I cried in a few scenes, but I wondered if I did it because of the sad soundtrack or because their love really convinced me. The montages (Jacob and Anna in bed, during the summer, for example) reinforce the idea of the perfect couple/relationship. Add to that the sentimental instrumental songs and the "package"; is complete. What we see is the concept of happiness regarding love - or the concept of happiness in general, once happiness and love are usually seen as related. There's the whole idea of love at first sight, the lovers painfully separated and fighting to be together. However, even if following the structure of fairy tales, the film - intentionally or not - goes against it. Is the loneliness that painful that others (Samantha and Simon) are able to enter into this sacred space? Couldn't love survive the distance and the passage of time? Wouldn't Romeo move to London to be with Juliet without thinking twice?

    Considering not only "Like Crazy", but also "Blue Valentine", "Un Amour de Jeunesse" and lots of other films, Rilke comes to mind as the best answer/explanation:

    "It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. (...) They are fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. . . . And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future?"*



    *"Letters to a Young Poet" (Letter Seven), by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • hobster1
    December 4, 2011
    hobster1
    The romance displays some nice chemistry between Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as the young couple separated by distance. We learn the minutia of their lives: they share a love for Paul Simon's Graceland album for example. He builds her a handcrafted chair. How touching! Their... read more connection feels honest and the details charmingly complement their sincere love affair. We recognize that they love each other. The problem is there simply aren't sufficient reasons to wish for this relationship to continue given the way their relationship plays out.

    This inexplicably won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Granted there's a beauty in the simplicity of plot and emotion that makes this drama so intimate. Unfortunately those innovations don't legitimize the aforementioned accolade. There aren't well-founded reasons to justify why we should care about these two young adults. The immigration laws (which they deliberately broke) keep them physically apart. Once isolated, they seem to find other lovers rather quickly. You'll be asking yourself, maybe these two weren't meant for each other. Like Crazy isn't a classic heartfelt romantic drama for the ages. This is about an everyday relationship. That can get pretty boring.

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Critic Reviews

Eric D. Snider
November 19, 2011
Eric D. Snider, Film.com

The couple's story is related through small, true-to-life details that paint an unidealized portrait of love - the euphoria, the sadness, and everything in between. Full Review

Roger Moore
November 15, 2011
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

Felicity Jones will break your heart at least once in "Like Crazy." Full Review

Tom Long
November 11, 2011
Tom Long, Detroit News

It's imperative for director and co-writer Drake Doremus to color the film with a great deal of blossoming-love sparkle right off the bat, and he does just that. Full Review

Bill Goodykoontz
November 10, 2011
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

What could have come off as stilted and artificial is instead genuine and natural. Full Review

Colin Covert
November 6, 2011
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

The cast creates such a naturalistic sense of empathy -- a complicity, even -- with the viewers that we're swept up into their characters' lives. Full Review

Christopher Orr
November 4, 2011
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic

Belying its title, Like Crazy is a film not about the ferocity of love, but about its fragility. Full Review

Rick Groen
November 4, 2011
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

Call it l'amour phooey. Full Review

Ann Hornaday
November 4, 2011
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

A serious, deeply felt romance for an audience Hollywood most often bombards with raunchy sex comedies and video-game adaptations. Full Review

Bruce Demara
November 4, 2011
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star

Those seeking a fresh take on romance will find Like Crazy almost existentially tepid. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
November 3, 2011
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

A romantic drama that makes other romantic films look obvious and calculated in comparison. Full Review

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    • Anna: I love you.
    • Anna: [crying]
    • Jacob: [crying] Ah, you're killing me.
    • Anna: I hate six months.
    • Anna: I don't feel very young.
    • Liz: Well, you are.
    • Jacob: So uhhh... What are you doing on Catalina? You look like a fisherman. Are you a fisherman? No? Do you fish? I love to fish.
    • Anna: I'm just trying to read, Jacob.
    • Jacob: Hmmm that's fine. It's a fine island, it's a fine island for reading. That's my yacht, 'The Ahi'. Yeah, I like tuna. I like tuna a lot. I like tuna enough to name my boat 'The Ahi'. I saved a cat from a tree once.
    • Anna: I'm sorry.
    • Jacob: It's okay. You have nothing to be sorry about.
    • Jacob: Have you been sleeping with loads of people?
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  • In what movie did George Clooney say "Did they look like psychos? Did they? No. They were fucking vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't care how crazy they are."   Answer »
  • "We'd come out here, just a few of us, and when the train comes, we'd make out like crazy."  Answer »
  • Ellen Roark: I keep thinking, what would Jake do? What would my father do? What would Lucien do? Harry Rex Vonner: Well see, there's your problem. What you should be thinking is, what would Harry Rex do? Ellen Roark: What would Harry Rex do? Harry Rex Vonner: Cheat. Cheat like crazy.  Answer »
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