Like Crazy (2011)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 104 | Rotten: 39
It has the schmaltzy trappings of my romantic films, but Like Crazy allows its characters to express themselves beyond dialogue, crafting a true, intimate study.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 10
It has the schmaltzy trappings of my romantic films, but Like Crazy allows its characters to express themselves beyond dialogue, crafting a true, intimate study.
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Movie Info
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 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
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Cast
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Anton Yelchin
Jacob -
Felicity Jones
Anna -
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Charlie Bewley
Simon -
Alex Kingston
Jackie -
Oliver Muirhead
Bernard -
Finola Hughes
Liz -
Chris Messina
Mike Appletree -
Ben York Jones
Ross -
Jamie Thomas King
Elliott -
Amanda Carlin
American Consulate Woma... -
Barry Sabath
Professor -
Keeley Hazell
Sabrina -
Kayla Barr
College Roommate -
James Messer
Delivery Man -
Natalie Blair
Natalie -
Robert Pike Daniel
Court Clerk -
Jimmy Tamborello
Figurine Band Member -
Meredith Landman
Figurine Band Member -
David Forster
Figurine Band Member -
Iris Taylor Cameron
Customs Official #1 -
Michael Lovett
Customs Official #2 -
Manal Elmasri
Customs Official #3 -
Stephen Young
Ticketing Agent #1 -
Callie Beckmann
Ticketing Agent #2 -
Michael Hyatt
Customs Agent -
Julian Stone
Harry -
Eric Satterberg
Jacob's Friend -
John Weselcouch
Jacob's Friend -
Michael Reilly
Jacob's Friend -
David Cuddy
Jacob's Friend -
Katie Wallack
Alex -
Julia Montague
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Jason King
Kissing Couple -
Jo Victoria Russell
Girl in Market -
Vickie Moss
Girl in Market -
Dermot Canavan
Janitor
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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.
Top CriticIt'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.
Doremus delivers a tightly focused film that's all the more impressive for being improvised.
It's not exactly Casablanca, but times have changed.
While the film is often quite moving, it's also at times frustrating; people in love, we realize, aren't always as fascinating to the rest of us as they are to each other.
What could have come off as stilted and artificial is instead genuine and natural.
It's like watching ninety minutes of awkward small talk, But Like Crazy is a beautifully observed and often poignant look at young love.
Felicity Jones will break your heart at least once
"Are you a romantic or a realist? Like Crazy is the rare romantic drama made for both."
The performances from Yelchin and Jones are admirable, but they just don't have much to work with as their characters are underwritten and underdeveloped.
Like Crazy manages to capture the elusive whimsy of first love, only to beat it to death with a tedious on again/off again love story and two main characters obstinately selfish and mundane.
This likeable low budget American indi is kept fresh by Yelchin and Jones who are endearing as the star-crossed lovers.
It's more like a series of sentimental greeting cards suitable at differing stages of a relationship, from sparkling first love to broken relationship to marriage and out of it ... The screenplay is rather formless and for the most part, tedious.
It makes what could have been a sweet and involving tour de force into a rather heavy-handed drama
Managing to keep melodrama at a distance, it's nonetheless impossible not to get swept up in the relationship.
This film not only provides an effective love story. It goes well beyond that to examine the way believable characters deal with problems resulting from forced separation due to immigration policies.
The film fails to explore each's new partners, and while leaving the focus on the central relationship isn't always a bad thing, when main duo fail to captivate in their own right, it feels a misstep not to have expanded the narrative.
Felicity Jones shines in Drake Doremus' deceptively simple romance, a refreshing take on an age-old dilemma.
It would be a good date movie for a couple on the point of breaking up.
The deeply-felt chemistry between Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin helps Like Crazy to capture the tragic ironies of young love in a diverting, mature, and ultimately heartbreaking manner.
As so many others have done before, Drake Doremus captures the giddy excitement of courtship; what makes his film more unusual is that he then hangs around to observe the nitty-gritty of making the ensuing relationship work.
A good movie which, if not exactly a masterpiece, at least involves us throughout.
Young love's tendresse has seldom seemed quite so irritating as it does in this largely improvised romance...
Worth seeing for a luminous performance by Felicity Jones, who's even more impressive than she was in Chalet Girl.
[Jones] fulfils her promise as one of our most exciting talents in this wonderful little drama.
Apart from everything else, Like Crazy is a reminder of the awful fact that all choices are permanent, to some degree. Life cannot be rewound and done over. It's a grownup love story.
Audience Reviews for Like Crazy
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- Anna: I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn't, not really. Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn't realize it would sometimes be more than whole, that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea. Because it's the halves that halve you in half. I didn't know, don't know, about the in-between bits; the gory bits of you, and the gory bits of me.
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- Anna: I love you.
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- Anna: [crying]
- Jacob: [crying] Ah, you're killing me.
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- Anna: I hate six months.
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- Anna: I don't feel very young.
- Liz: Well, you are.
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- 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.
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In today's dating climate, things are far more fluid than in times past, and this film captures that fluidity. Whereas films like Love Story and The Way We Were occupy themselves with only the lives of two people and their elliptical orbits around each other, today we often add other people -- other moons -- that interfere with the primary relationship. This is as true in life as it is in this fine film.
Strong performances by Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones carry the film, and supporting roles, most notably by Jennifer Lawrence, complement the two leads nicely. There aren't any great, memorable scenes, but the film captures the feeling of this relationship well, and I found myself enjoying getting to know these characters.
The story and its central conflict are less compelling than the performances. Immigration issues are real-world problems, and I'm sure that those who experience them find great difficulty, but the don't compel as a central conflict for a film. Also, I found that the film dragged here and there, particularly when the leads were apart.
Overall, this is a strong film for this era, but it's not as transcendent as one might hope.