Like Crazy (2011)
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Critic Consensus: 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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Cast
as Jacob
as Anna
as Sam
as Simon
as Jackie
as Bernard
as Liz
as Mike Appletree
as Ross
as Elliott
as American Consulate Woman
as Professor
as Sabrina
as College Roommate
as Delivery Man
as Natalie
as Court Clerk
as Figurine Band Member
as Figurine Band Member
as Figurine Band Member
as Figurine Band Member
as Customs Official #1
as Customs Official #2
as Customs Official #3
as Customs Official #3
as Ticketing Agent #1
as Ticketing Agent #2
as Customs Agent
as Harry
as Jacob's Friend
as Jacob's Friend
as Jacob's Friend
as Jacob's Friend
as Alex
as Kissing Couple
as Kissing Couple
as Girl in Market
as Girl in Market
as 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.
It'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.
Audience Reviews for Like Crazy
The leads are very talented even if not so charismatic (and they don't have a lot of chemistry together), but this is compensated by a mature story told with a lot of conviction and made even more sincere by its dynamic editing that shows well the power of time in a relationship.
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Wanted to like this, but it just felt like a real nothing movie. I didn't buy the attraction between the pair, which I guess is a major problem for this genre. I didn't really care if they got together or not. To me, they were both cheaters anyhow, so can't have been too madly in love.
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I just don't see how anyone really enjoys watching two inconsiderate people hate each other for decades while calling it love. Recently there has been this trend of love stories about people doomed to repeat stupid decisions over and over again, never ending up with the person they are meant to be with. These films are oftentimes badly thought out and have super melodramatic stories that center on immature, useless individuals with little to no characteristics except their own selfishness and inability to commit. This story isn't as longwinded as "One Day" or as large as life as say "The English Patient" but it falls under this umbrella because of the length of their courtship and their eventual decline. Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin have zero to no chemistry in this, their characters are inane, their acting is over the top, and we jump through time with no explanation, at various points in the story, skewing what's happening on screen. The fact that Jennifer Lawrence shows up in a quick couple scenes is the only thing interesting about this, otherwise this is a clear snooze fest.
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Like Crazy Quotes
| 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. |
| Anna: | I love you. |
| Anna: | [crying] |
| Jacob: | [crying] Ah, you're killing me. |
| Anna: | I hate six months. |
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