The Crush

1993 "He thought it was just a crush. He was dead wrong."
5.8| 1h29m| R| en| More Info
Released: 02 April 1993 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
nathanburke-88780 The film that probably got Alicia Silverstone noticed by Hollywood The Crush is a new take on the young teenage being obsessed with an older man. Cary Elwes is alright though he doesn't have much to do but Silverstone is pretty good- It is strange to see her absent lately as she clearly has that star factor going for her. Go see it for her.
Danii Disaster This wacky movie is so bad, it is actually somewhat entertaining. It is apparent from the very start that this is going to be an extremely stupid, lame chick-flick, but you're kind of obligated to watch to see just HOW dumb it's going to get. And it doesn't disappoint.Obviously, someone just pulled the script right out of their backside as it is hard to imagine a more unrealistic and unlikely sequence of events.Alicia Silverstone, however, is very good. She shines in her debut performance, despite the fact that she is playing a terribly-written character.The male lead was far less impressive. In fact, one of the worst performances I've seen lately. It really doesn't help matters that he's playing an annoyingly dumb 28-year old, who, in fact, doesn't look or act any older than Adrian. I did not feel any sympathy for Nick to be honest. He was neither charismatic, nor in any other way likable. A protagonist that leaves you indifferent (I'd say annoyed, actually)... not a good sign.As for the movie itself. Well, it was a trainwreck. An amateurish one at that. The recipe used for this movie was: "Lolita" plus "Fatal Attraction" minus all the thrills and suspense plus a healthy dose of "lame" multiplied my 10 equals "The Crush".Watch it as a comedy, not as a thriller. Then you'll probably enjoy it. Trust me, there are laughs to be had at the expense of the screenplay writer(s). Just when you think that it simply cannot get any dumber... it will surprise you!
ccthemovieman-1 Word was that "you have to see this Alicia Silverstone; she's really hot." That was back in 1993, so I checked out the movie. This was Alicia's film debut and she got a lot of hype for this movie.I discovered, yeah, Silverstone has a pretty face, but that's about it. The movie was nothing special; not something you haven't seen before. Cary Elwes, not Silverstone, ruins the picture. Not literally him; the character he plays: "Nick." What a dork! Nick is an incredibly stupid guy who befriends the 14-year-old "Adrienne" (Silverstone), who is his neighbor. The girl, who then expects more from the guy and doesn't get it, vents her wrath on him. Nick is so annoying I didn't care what the stupid neighbor did to him. Both of the lead characters deserved each other.Whatever happened to Silverstone? I guess she never really made it to stardom. The last I remember her was playing "Batgirl" with George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
joeditt Seduction (or so) by the assumed lesser: of course, this issue's many aspects deserve as well serious as dramatic picturization. This movie is none of both.Alicia Silverstone appears well-casted. The not really smart but defiant, cunning and tricky character seems to fit her. Perhaps her exterior helps her plausibility, especially those remains of baby fat - on her up-curled upper lip baring rosy gums above those tiny upper teeth, on her unstructured overhands above unshaped child fingers, or on her rounded baby feet. Sure, the physical exterior itself carries no personality traits, but how penetratingly she leverages her frailties for seductive aims is working beyond attractiveness norms and below the boundaries of the subconscious - if only a properly naive target mammal insists on stumbling in front of her cross-hair. For her alleged intention is most lumpishly obvious.The bothersome boring effect this exaggerated performance has on me does not yet mean this can never happen. But it raises the question if our still male dominated society needs such embarrassing poor male chauvinist excusing screen operas showing us how perfidious Lolitas lurk out there in that frightening real life. To be serious, if such a rare constellation really occurs (independent of the gender configuration), than the much more interesting aspects are (a) in which way the younger person, no matter how much in formal control of what's going on, is (even unconsciously) over-strained both mentally and emotionally, and (b) what on earth (except the fluke to receive a seemingly willing, even demandingly self-offering victim) lets the elder person be taken by such an ostensible play.In this sense, Cary Elwes to some extent may be seen as likewise well-casted. His enormous lack of mimic expression fits Nick's naive, or rather excruciatingly stupid character quite well. His eyes tell he sort of expects permanent proof for his self-confidence, yet almost everything he experiences turns out so overwhelmingly unbelievable that he can't even decide if it's frightening, exciting, or just terribly puzzling. Anyway, as this happens frequently, his inner will to survive prevents him from being scared to death by learning to get a kick out of it. The result is visible: even when the exerted brows above his permanently bewildered eyes try to prevent anger, the corners of his mouth undecidedly oscillate between fear and a childishly lustful sort of joy. In fact, what we see rather appears to be how Mr. Elwes on each single day of the shooting again experiences the sensation of really having found his way onto a movie set. It can be seen often in unexperienced supernumeraries' faces: the amazement that at the most allows attempts of ... playing to play.But how come Nick is introduced as skilled investigative journalist? Who only moments later is told by a 14 yo girl how easily informations this Mr. Pulitzer Jr. regards totally out of his reach can be obtained? These two alleged parts of one personality hardly apply - except to the dissonant concept of excusing a human mammal's misbehavior as consequences of allegedly having fallen prey to the wicked skills of one of those myriads of killer Lolita monsters out there. Boo.