The in-your-face documentary recalls the sensational tabloid story from the 1950s.
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01/20/09
Crazy Love (2007)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:64
Rotten:19
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Crazy Love’s subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc’s dry, talking heads format.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:18-07-2008
Synopsis: Dan Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt, a 32 year-old... [More]
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11/23/07
Crazy Love...sidles up to us, thrills and surprises us, seduces us with the pop flavor of its mid-century paperback aesthetic and its titillating tabloid tale. Crazy Love is chummy.
11/15/07
Apresenta, mesmo que de forma convencional, uma história de amor fascinante em suas insanas reviravoltas.
11/09/07
Stranger than fiction: This decades-long amour fou is so astonishing in its twists and turns that it's hard to believe it's factual. While contextualizing the tale in the pre-feminist era, Klores leaves some mysteries open, thus allowing for speculation
10/16/07
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09/22/07
As with all banner-head stories, there comes a point when you tire of being screamed at.
09/22/07
It’s too easy to feel superior to these two people and their marriage in hell for the sake of some easy (or even uneasy) laughter.
09/22/07
There hasn't been a documentary this sick since Kirby Dick's Sick!
09/22/07
Directors Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens treat this as a straight-up documentary and it is fascinating in a terribly sad sort of way. But it's difficult not to wonder why we need to hear this story.
09/22/07
Quite brilliant.
09/22/07
Far too readily tends to play this pathetic story for laughs.
09/22/07
Top CriticA Bronx tale full of jaw-dropping behavior and jaw-dropping hairdos.
09/22/07
The film lassoes you in with "ya gotta hear this" prurience.
07/25/07
Offers little save morbid titillation.
07/13/07
Crazy Love is tabloid journalism at its most base and vulgar, with the same moral bankruptcy as the media outlets that turned this tragedy into grotesque copy in the first place.
07/11/07
You say 'psychotic codependency' like it's a bad thing.
07/11/07
[Director] Klore's grasp of his characters give this movie depth.
07/10/07
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