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Like Crazy Movie Review

Name: Like Crazy Movie Review
Item: Like Crazy
Rating: 3.75
Author: Sivapriya Anand

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Review for the film " Like Crazy"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Certificate: A

Released: 28-10-2011

Genre: Drama, Romance

Similar To: Somewhere Beautiful, Wendy, Tupperware Unsealed, Lying And Stealing

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CAST & CREW

Felicity Jones

Jennifer Lawrence

Anton Yelchin

Drake Doremus

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Director:

Drake Doremus

Movie Actor:

Anton Yelchin

Charlie Bewley

Movie Actress:

Felicity Jones

Jennifer Lawrence

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Like Crazy is an American Flick of love and hardships that come with separation, starring Felicity Jones Born and brought up in Bournville, Felicity Jones >> Read More... , Anton Yelchin Anton Yelchin was a young American actor. He has d >> Read More... in lead roles. It is screened at Sundance Film Festival and won the ‘Grand Jury’ prize.

Plot

A British girl, Anna Gardener (Felicity Jones), comes to Los Angeles through a foreign exchange program. She falls head over heels in love with an American classmate Jacob Helm (Anton Yelchin). He feels the same for her. Anna extends her time in the US to spend with Jacob, but she is unaware of the outcome of defying her Visa rules. So when she goes to London to attend a family function and tries to return to America, she is stopped by the authorities who let her know about the ban. Knowing this, Jacob comes to London once, but he has to return to his furniture design business. What happened to their love? Did her fight against the ban was successful? Did they move on and find new lives? Watch the movie to find out.

Analysis

The director Drake Doremus Drake Doremus is a Hollywood film director and scr >> Read More... takes us on a rollercoaster ride of love. He makes up weep; he makes us laugh, finally making us falling in love with love. This movie is all about why we stick to love, how hard it may be. Why one can’t let go of that one true love? Although a bit unrealistic at parts, it surely will connect to our hearts, haunting us long after we leave the theatre. His strength lies in giving the opportunity to the actors to improvise the dialogues. That has proved a masterstroke as the lead roles provide us with some of the best love lines. The music beautifully merges with the storyline. The cinematographer captures the mood of the film remarkably.

Star Performances

Felicity is the star. She marvellously portrays Anna. Her face is the canvas where the feelings of love and loss are so amazingly radiated. Anna loves Jacob more than he loves her. The sense of desperation is more clearly seen in her. Anton Yelchin is impressive. But the story shows him more focused on career than love. Jacob even seems more involved with Samantha ( Jennifer Lawrence She’s an Academy Award winning actress at her youn >> Read More... ), a co-worker in his office, than Anna with her neighbour Simon (Charlie Bewley). I should partly attribute this to Jennifer Lawrence playing Samantha. She is so stunning an actress that Sam’s relationship with Jacob becomes very much believable. Alex Kingston and Oliver Muirhead are genuine and sweet as Jackie and Bernard (Anna’s parents).