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Crazy Love (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 81

Fresh: 63

Rotten:18

Average Rating: 7/10

Consensus: Crazy Love�s subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc�s dry, talking heads format.

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release: Jun 1, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $161,978

Synopsis: Dan Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda, a beautiful,... [More]

Starring: Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach

Director: Dan Klores

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Oct 16, 2007

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08/07/08

Jonathan Kiefer

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11/23/07

Sydney Morning Herald

Crazy Love...sidles up to us, thrills and surprises us, seduces us with the pop flavor of its mid-century paperback aesthetic and its titillating tabloid tale. Crazy Love is chummy.

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11/15/07

Nick Davis

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Apresenta, mesmo que de forma convencional, uma hist�ria de amor fascinante em suas insanas reviravoltas.

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11/09/07

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Stranger than fiction: This decades-long amour fou is so astonishing in its twists and turns that it's hard to believe it's factual. While contextualizing the tale in the pre-feminist era, Klores leaves some mysteries open, thus allowing for speculation

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10/16/07

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

As with all banner-head stories, there comes a point when you tire of being screamed at.

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09/22/07

Melissa Anderson

Time Out New York

It�s too easy to feel superior to these two people and their marriage in hell for the sake of some easy (or even uneasy) laughter.

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09/22/07

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

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There hasn't been a documentary this sick since Kirby Dick's Sick!

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09/22/07

David N. Butterworth

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Directors Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens treat this as a straight-up documentary and it is fascinating in a terribly sad sort of way. But it's difficult not to wonder why we need to hear this story.

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09/22/07

Jean Lowerison

San Diego Metropolitan

Quite brilliant.

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09/22/07

Kim Voynar

Cinematical

Far too readily tends to play this pathetic story for laughs.

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09/22/07

Manohla Dargis

New York Times

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A Bronx tale full of jaw-dropping behavior and jaw-dropping hairdos.

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09/22/07

Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

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The film lassoes you in with "ya gotta hear this" prurience.

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07/25/07

Phil Villarreal

Arizona Daily Star

Offers little save morbid titillation.

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07/13/07

Shawn Levy

Oregonian

Crazy Love is tabloid journalism at its most base and vulgar, with the same moral bankruptcy as the media outlets that turned this tragedy into grotesque copy in the first place.

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07/11/07

James Hudson

New York Press

You say 'psychotic codependency' like it's a bad thing.

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07/11/07

Rob Vaux

Flipside Movie Emporium

[Director] Klore's grasp of his characters give this movie depth.

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07/10/07

Michael Sragow

Baltimore Sun

Equal parts heartwarming and repulsive, the compulsively watchable film is certainly 90 of the fastest, weirdest minutes I've spent in a theater in a long time.

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07/06/07

Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

...an unsettling documentary about the pathological "love" of one damaged human for another

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07/06/07

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Particularly because many viewers have already seen the TV-news version, almost any other genre would have been even more compelling -- a fictionalized drama, perhaps, or Truman Capote-style narrative non-fiction.

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07/05/07

Kerry Lengel

Arizona Republic

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