Crazy/ Beautiful (2001)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 99
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 37
The story is not new, but the film gets credit for trying to move away from the genre's cliches. Kirsten Dunst and newcomer Jay Hernandez give believable performances.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 12
The story is not new, but the film gets credit for trying to move away from the genre's cliches. Kirsten Dunst and newcomer Jay Hernandez give believable performances.
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Movie Info
The Romeo and Juliet story has been modernized to a high school setting previously, but this romance from director John Stockwell turns the tale inside out. Jay Hernandez stars as Carlos Nunez, a poor but athletically gifted Latino teenager who endures a two-hour bus ride every day from East L.A. to attend the posh, wealthy Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles on a football scholarship. A straight-A student, Carlos is focused and driven, but his future is cast in doubt when he becomes
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Cast
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Kirsten Dunst
Nicole Oakley -
Jay Hernandez
Carlos Nunez -
Bruce Davison
Congressman Tom Oakley -
Lucinda Jenney
Courtney Oakley -
Taryn Manning
Maddy -
Rolando Molina
Hector -
Keram Malicki-Sánchez
Foster -
Cory C. Hardrict
Wilcox -
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All Critics (111) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (37) | DVD (15)
As overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery.
Top CriticDunst, in her finest performance yet, has now transcended her fellow teen stars.
The movie is so predictable, it's not surprising that the script is credited to first-timers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, and the direction to John Stockwell, a former acting peer to Tom Cruise.
Sure, the Romeo-and-Juliet thing has been done before, but director John Stockwell pulls it off with his two promising leads.
Even when the movie is bad -- which it is in its abrupt, mismanaged, final-act attempt to cram in moments of forgiveness and clarity -- it's addictively so.
The formula works.
There is nothing new in this teen fantasy.
This movie is godawful. Simply godawful.
Has a typical, write-by-the-numbers plot, about as predictable as they come and almost that interesting.
The effect is a much more engrossing experience than we have come to expect from teen movies.
The movie's dramatic moments come from dialogue not actions, and much of the time viewers are left on their own to fill in the words that remain unspoken.
...these kids talk like real kids, not like Hollywood's version of precocious, advanced adolescence...
Writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi took a kind of hackneyed idea and made it, along with director John Stockwell, into something really odd and unpredictable
A surprisingly intelligent and effective movie.
Dunst is so luminescent that it's impossible not to feel for her character every step of the way.
Once again, Kisrten Dunst saves a film just with her presence.
[Dunst's] intelligent, complex performance makes Nicole a charming, frustrating, pathetic, and ballsy protagonist worthy of screen time.
The arc of their romance ... has nothing in the way of surprises or quirks to lift it out of the ordinary.
It's a pleasant warm-weather diversion for the mall crowd.
"so bland it makes Pablum seem like hot curry"
This could be ho-hum in the extreme were it not for its star and the visual snap director John Stockwell brings to it.
This film is a true drama with well-drawn characters and a fairly intelligent script.
Zen masters can see and appreciate the beauty in a cracked, bumpy, and uneven pot....Carlos is a Zen master in the making whose love enables him to see Nicole's inner beauty.
With its realistic depiction of teen angst, crazy/beautiful will break your heart without ever attempting to manipulate it.
The most striking instance of growing up on display is that of the contemporary teen film.
crazy/beautiful is essentially about understanding that people with mental health issues are absolutely worthy of love.
Audience Reviews for Crazy/ Beautiful
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- Nicole Oakley: You can be anywhere when your life begins. When the future opens up in front of you. And you may not even realize it at first, but it's already happening.
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