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Run time:
89 min.
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Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones star in this powerful story about two young
lovers whose relationship is threatened by international borders.
In the beginning, it’s all so simple. Anna notices Jacob in one of her
classes and leaves a romantic poem on his car. For these two naïve college
students, this small event paves the way into what could be a love that will
last forever. When the UK-born Anna gets too wrapped up in Jacob’s world and
decides to overstay her visa, she is deported. Desperately trying to tear
through large amounts of bureaucratic red tape, the couple is determined to
find a way to keep from letting distance and time rip them apart. Given the
fabricated nature of film, capturing realistic relationship moments on
screen can often be very difficult, yet director Drake Doremus seems to have
the ability to do this in spades. Like Crazy is full of so many indelibly
true scenarios that you almost forget entirely that you are watching a film.
That is until you experience the pitch perfect editing. All the fat is
trimmed, leaving us with only the concise, poignant moments necessary to
make up this story. In his third feature, Doremus does not dawdle or bask in
a love for his material. He instead leans on it, knowing that the perfect
two-minute scene is much more effective than the lovely four-minute scene.
The results are breathtaking – a film that lets you relive all the pleasures
and pains of young love within 89 minutes. Yelchin and Jones shine together
on screen - both parties worthy of falling deeply in love with. The Grand
Prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Like Crazy is destined
to be one of the greatest love stories of our time as it stands apart from
most of its contemporaries in making a very potent statement about the power
of true love.
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