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Crazy Love (2007)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:64
Rotten:19
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Crazy Love’s subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc’s dry, talking heads format.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for language including sexual references, and mature thematic elements.
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... 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, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of endless newspapers and magazines. With the cooperation of the principles, Burt, now 79, and Linda, 68, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness. CRAZY LOVE recently had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and earned the Best Documentary award at the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival. --© Magnolia Pictures [More]
Starring: Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach
Starring: Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach
Director: Dan Klores
Director: Dan Klores
Producer: Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
Composer: Douglas J. Cuomo
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
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Reviews for Crazy Love
some quite serious questions are actually dealt with in admirable fashion
An irresistible comic shocker, with more satisfying surprise twists to its narrative than one finds in a novel by Patricia Highsmith.
I could tell you all the surprises that make the loopy documentary Crazy Love such an odd treat, but then I'd be undermining the whole point of telling you to go.
Dan Klores' documentary proves that truth really is stranger than fiction as it spins the tale of an infamous crime of passion--and its unbelievable result.
Crazy Love scrapes away the cartoon exterior around this story and peers into the unknowable murk of the human heart.
Klores tells this story as well as its ever likely to be told...[and] as stories go, this one's a doozy.
Klores never succeeds in making these outrageous turns of events all that surprising and Crazy Love feels like obsession that's been warmed over once too often.
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.
It's hilarious, more than a little sad, and totally captivating... it's like really juicy gossip at the water cooler, only the people are telling the dirty secrets about themselves.
The fascinating documentary Crazy Love is a real-world story in which possessiveness, stupidity, loyalty, and need are joined together in bewildering combinations.
Might be the greatest date movie ever made but not necessarily the best movie to see on a first or second date.
The movie distills every functionally dysfunctional relationship you’ve ever had into one horrific case study.
Crazy Love seems to promise a demented, true-life film noir love story and winds up delivering an above-average A&E documentary.
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