Like Crazy
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Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film. The film was directed by Drake Doremus
and stars Anton Yelchin
, Felicity Jones
and Jennifer Lawrence
. In an interview with The Telegraph
, Jones stated that the script was fully improvised. The film won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 27th Sundance Film Festival, and Jones won a Special Grand Jury Prize for acting in a dramatic film.. It was shot with the inexpensive Canon EOS 7D
DSLR camera, and its budget did not exceed $250,000. The film was acquired by Paramount Vantage
and was released on October 28, 2011.
, she claims that the film is a reenactment of Doremus and Pappenscheller's romantic and marital history including her United States immigration problems.
Drake Doremus
Drake Doremus is a film director and screenwriter best known for directing the films Like Crazy which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Douchebag which was in Dramatic competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and Spooner .Doremus also taught at the Orange County...
and stars Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, as well as the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis...
, Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones is an English actress from Birmingham. She is best known to television audiences for her role as the school bully Ethel Hallow in the first series of The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College...
and Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is an American film and television actress. She has had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone, for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress...
. In an interview with The Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
, Jones stated that the script was fully improvised. The film won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 27th Sundance Film Festival, and Jones won a Special Grand Jury Prize for acting in a dramatic film.. It was shot with the inexpensive Canon EOS 7D
Canon EOS 7D
The Canon EOS 7D is an 18.0 effective megapixel APS-C crop CMOS digital single-lens reflex camera made by Canon. It was announced on September 1, 2009...
DSLR camera, and its budget did not exceed $250,000. The film was acquired by Paramount Vantage
Paramount Vantage
Paramount Vantage is the specialty film division of Paramount Pictures , charged with producing, purchasing, distributing and marketing films, generally those with a more "art house" feel than films made and distributed by its parent company.Paramount Classics was launched in 1998 and...
and was released on October 28, 2011.
Plot
Yelchin and Jones play Jacob and Anna, college students in Los Angeles who become a couple. Anna is a British exchange student who, having fallen in love with Jacob, a design student, spends the summer with him, overstaying her student visa after it had expired on graduation. She returns home to London for a family obligation, and when she flies back to Los Angeles as a tourist she is detained, denied entry, turned away, and sent back to England by Los Angeles airport immigration officials, throwing the couple into an awkward and strained long-distance relationship. Anna is banned from entering the United States for this prior violation of having overstayed her original visa. The deep love of the couple is strained by the distance and frustration of not being able to see each other except when Jacob can make the time away from his successful design business in Los Angeles to visit Anna in England. Anna's family in England hires an immigration lawyer to try to get the ban lifted and allow Anna to return to Jacob in the United States. However, after many legal appeals, the ban was not lifted. They continue to legally challenge the ban, but the relationship of Anna and Jacob is compromised although their love remains genuine.Inspiration
Like Crazy has been described as loosely inspired by the real life experiences of director Drake Doremus, and in an interview with his ex-wife Desiree Pappenscheller, who was born in AustriaAustria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, she claims that the film is a reenactment of Doremus and Pappenscheller's romantic and marital history including her United States immigration problems.
Cast
- Anton YelchinAnton YelchinAnton Viktorovich Yelchin is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, as well as the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis...
as Jacob - Felicity JonesFelicity JonesFelicity Jones is an English actress from Birmingham. She is best known to television audiences for her role as the school bully Ethel Hallow in the first series of The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College...
as Anna - Jennifer LawrenceJennifer LawrenceJennifer Shrader Lawrence is an American film and television actress. She has had lead roles in TBS's The Bill Engvall Show and in the independent films The Burning Plain and Winter's Bone, for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress...
as Sam - Charlie BewleyCharlie BewleyCharles Martin M. "Charlie" Bewley is an English actor known for his role as the vampire Demetri in the film adaptations of The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Eclipse. He will also appear in the upcoming movies Ecstasy and Soldiers of Fortune.Bewley was raised on a farm in the middle of England...
as Simon - Alex KingstonAlex KingstonAlexandra Elizabeth "Alex" Kingston is an English actress. She is most widely known for her roles as Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the NBC medical drama ER and as River Song in Doctor Who.-Early life and education:...
as Jackie - Oliver MuirheadOliver MuirheadOliver Muirhead is an English character actor known for often portraying pompous country gentlemen. In 1986, he also directed the musical pantomime A Christmas Held Captive. In addition to acting, Muirhead has also lent his voice to various animated series such as P.J...
as Bernard - Finola HughesFinola HughesFinola Hughes is an English actress, television host, author and former dancer, best known for role as Anna Devane on the General Hospital, All My Children and General Hospital: Night Shift , and her role as Anna Devane's identical twin sister, Doctor Alexandra Devane Marick, on All My Children...
as Liz - Chris MessinaChris MessinaChris Messina may refer to:*Chris Messina *Chris Messina...
as Mike Appletree - Ben York JonesBen York JonesBen York Jones is an American film actor and screenwriter best known for co-writing and starring in Like Crazy which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and playing Tom Nussbaum in Douchebag which was in Dramatic competition at Sundance the previous year.Though born on...
as Ross - Jamie Thomas King as Elliot
Reception
- The movie had a certified fresh rating of 74% on Rotten TomatoesRotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
as of November 2011.