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Crazy Love

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Crazy Love (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 80 Fresh: 62  Rotten:18 Average Rating: 7/10
 
Consensus: Subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the dry format. Crazy Love’s subjects and story are so compelling that they overcome the doc’s dry, talking heads format. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
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 married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a... [More]
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 married attorney and Linda, a beautiful, single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance, which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of endless newspapers and magazines. With the cooperation of the principles, Burt, now 79, and Linda, 68, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness. CRAZY LOVE recently had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and earned the Best Documentary award at the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival. --© Magnolia Pictures [Less]

Genre: Education/General Interest

Starring: Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach

Director: Dan Klores
Producer: Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
Composer: Douglas J. Cuomo

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 10, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English
  • Subtitles - Optional - Spanish

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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.

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11/15/07 10:30 AM
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks
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Apresenta, mesmo que de forma convencional, uma história de amor fascinante em suas insanas reviravoltas.

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11/09/07 03:57 PM
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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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

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10/16/07 06:07 PM
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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As with all banner-head stories, there comes a point when you tire of being screamed at.

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09/22/07 06:33 AM
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York
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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.

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09/22/07 06:33 AM
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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There hasn't been a documentary this sick since Kirby Dick's Sick!

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09/22/07 06:33 AM
David N. Butterworth
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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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.

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09/22/07 06:33 AM
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan
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Quite brilliant.

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09/22/07 06:33 AM
Kim Voynar
Cinematical
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Far too readily tends to play this pathetic story for laughs.

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09/22/07 06:33 AM
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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A Bronx tale full of jaw-dropping behavior and jaw-dropping hairdos.

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09/22/07 06:33 AM
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The film lassoes you in with "ya gotta hear this" prurience.

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07/25/07 03:25 PM
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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Offers little save morbid titillation.

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07/13/07 01:09 PM
Shawn Levy
Oregonian
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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.

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07/11/07 03:54 PM
James Hudson
New York Press
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You say 'psychotic codependency' like it's a bad thing.

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07/11/07 06:58 AM
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium
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[Director] Klore's grasp of his characters give this movie depth.

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07/10/07 12:01 PM
Michael Sragow
Baltimore Sun
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Equal parts heartwarming and repulsive, the compulsively watchable film is certainly 90 of the fastest, weirdest minutes I've spent in a theater in a long time.

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07/06/07 07:58 AM
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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...an unsettling documentary about the pathological "love" of one damaged human for another

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07/06/07 05:08 AM
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Particularly because many viewers have already seen the TV-news version, almost any other genre would have been even more compelling -- a fictionalized drama, perhaps, or Truman Capote-style narrative non-fiction.

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07/05/07 03:29 PM
Kerry Lengel
Arizona Republic
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Despite knowing some of the story's more jaw-dropping developments beforehand, I was still riveted and surprised by the movie.

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07/02/07 02:51 PM
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com
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An irresistible comic shocker, with more satisfying surprise twists to its narrative than one finds in a novel by Patricia Highsmith.

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06/29/07 09:14 AM
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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