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crazy/beautiful

Movie: A

Sound: A

Picture: A

Reviewed By: David

Touchstone Films presents "crazy/beautiful" Directed by John Stockwell.

Kirsten Dunst stars as Nicole, a wild 17 year old with an important dad, a self-focused step mom loads of money, and no happiness in sight. She and her friend Maddy spend most of their time getting drunk and or high, laughing, running around without the restriction of underwear, and blowing off classes at their rich Palisades California high school.

But then Nicole catches the eye of Carlos (Jay Hernandez), the serious-minded son of Mexican immigrants who rides the bus two hours from his East L.A. home to attend the school. He studies hard, plays football. Nicole immediately starts getting Carlos in trouble, but he can’t resist her wildness and interest in him. The fist half of the movie plays like a straight-forward romance between two completely different people from vastly different cultures.

Nicole is convinced her successful father doesn't love her anymore. Nicole's mom committed suicide when she was 12. Nicole's stepmom is a stereotype of hate. She is determined to rebel against Dad (Bruce Davison), the authorities, and anyone who attempts to stop her booze-drinking, reckless-driving, class-ditching ways. Carlos (Jay Hernandez) spends long hours on the bus to school determined to get good grades and make it into pilots' school at the Naval Academy. After they meet and sparks fly, he struggles to keep his head and not lose sight of his goals while trying to calm Nicole's drinking and drugging urges. But despite his best intentions, Nicole's all consuming problems and Carlos's own attraction to this wild child distract him from everything he's worked so hard for to the dismay of his traditional family. Carlos must ultimately decide how important true love is when it means possibly sacrificing his future plans.

Crazy/beautiful” delivers numerous sexual encounters (including partial nudity and graphic for PG-13 sex) between Carlos and Nicole, and lots of bad language and all kinds of drug and alcohol abuse. At first, all are portrayed as wild but normal teen behavior. But as the movie progresses you realize they are part of Nicole’s self-destructive lifestyle. Surprises lie at every turn in this wildly seductive and critically acclaimed drama.

The key to "crazy/beautiful" is that director John Stockwell, working from a script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi doesn't play the adult outsider with a camera. He has sympathy for his characters, but he never passes judgment on them either.

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Edition Details:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Commentary by director John Stockwell and Kirsten Dunst
• The making of Crazy/Beautiful
• Deleted scenes
• Theatrtical trailer with commentary

 

 

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