Captures the sheer weirdness of the tale without turning it into sleazy sensationalism...turning what's really a sordid story into a perversely fascinating romance.
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06/11/07
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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.
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Reviews for Crazy Love
Simultaneously disturbing and luridly entertaining.
06/08/07
Among the weirdest explorations of connubial relationships since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And like Edward Albee's 1962 play, it leaves one feeling queasy about human nature.
06/08/07
You could not make this stuff up.
06/08/07
Top CriticThanks to Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens' immersive documentary Crazy Love, we can all share the can't-believe-this, judgmental thrill of following the tormented passion of ambulance-chasing attorney Burt Pugach and lovely Linda Riss.
06/08/07
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.
06/08/07
Crazy Love seems to promise a demented, true-life film noir love story and winds up delivering an above-average A&E documentary.
06/08/07
Crazy Love scrapes away the cartoon exterior around this story and peers into the unknowable murk of the human heart.
06/08/07
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.
06/08/07
...like the Scott and Laci Peterson saga set to conga music.
06/08/07
There's plenty of black comedy in their twisted affair, but a more substantial documentary wouldn't leave you smiling.
06/07/07
I don't know if Crazy Love is a love story or a hate story, but I do know it's unlikely there will be two more fascinating, confounding people at the movies this year than Burt and Linda Pugach.
06/07/07
Interviews with Burt and Linda Pugach, the New York couple whose tabloid lives are chronicled in Dan Klores' docu-curio Crazy Love, have been politely nonjudgmental. After seeing the movie, I'd like to say I hate one and pity the other.
06/07/07
Top CriticSome stories are so weird they could only be true.
06/07/07
Jaw-dropping true crime, this video documentary by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens balances neatly between tabloid headlines and unfathomable intimacy.
06/07/07
A documentary about a mad love affair, a movie that's about as compulsively watchable as a great tabloid headline story is compulsively readable -- and also a lot more rewarding.
06/07/07
Top CriticIn the sense that everyone is interesting once their lives are sufficiently unpacked, Burt and Linda’s story is not boring -- but beyond its tabloid sensationalism, it’s not especially significant either.
06/07/07
You can make of it what you want. [Director] Klores offers no cheap psycho-babble.
06/07/07
Top CriticIf you don't know the tale of Burt and Linda Pugach, then you're out of the loop on one of the biggest running tabloid stories in New York history.
06/07/07
The fascinating documentary Crazy Love is a real-world story in which possessiveness, stupidity, loyalty, and need are joined together in bewildering combinations.
06/04/07
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October 14, 2007:
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