The Crush

    The Crush
    1993

    Synopsis

    A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

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    Cast

    • Cary ElwesNick Eliot
    • Alicia SilverstoneAdrian Forrester
    • Jennifer RubinAmy Maddik
    • Kurtwood SmithCliff Forrester
    • Amber BensonCheyenne
    • Gwynyth WalshLiv Forrester
    • Deborah HancockSamantha
    • Beverley ElliottTex Murphy
    • Andrew AirlieDr. Pollard
    • Sheila PatersonMrs. Tinkerman

    Recommendations

    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      The Crush is the latest in the growing ''from hell'' genre, about all the fun things that happen when a ferocious, precocious 14-year-old girl develops an intense crush on the nice-guy journalist who rents a guest house from the girl's parents. Things start innocent. Get worse. Get horrible. Get ridiculous. You know the formula. Working within that formula, The Crush isn't bad.
    • 60

      Empire

      As an unashamed B-movie, The Crush does what it says on the tin and entertains for an hour and a half. Except you feel kind of cheated by the supposed climax, with the build up proving more disturbing. Silverstone is convincingly equal parts Lolita and Norman Bates.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Yet another variation on the woman-from-hell subgenre, THE CRUSH fails to come up with many new twists beyond casting a teenager as its villain. Dancing around its own salacious possibilities, the movie is only briefly offensive and rarely surprising.
    • 40

      Variety

      In fact, with its basic shortage of gore and only brief glimpses of nudity, it’s hard to imagine what in the film prompted an R rating, unless it stands for “ridiculous.”
    • 40

      Time Out

      A harmless sex-teaser, from a first-time writer/director, which develops into a confused, cynical and third-rate exploitationer.
    • 40

      Austin Chronicle

      With plot holes so large you could drive a HumVee through them, this debut film from director Shapiro is little more than a lousy hybrid, one part Fatal Attraction to two parts Lolita, only this time Humbert Humbert writes for trendy Pique! magazine and lives in Seattle (but doesn't everybody these days?).
    • 30

      Washington Post

      There's something scuzzy about the whole exercise.
    • 30

      The New York Times

      Never succeeds in becoming either torrid or scary. It does generate a few chuckles in its depiction of what are supposedly the workings of a chic and hard-hitting magazine...The Crush is for the most part grindingly predictable and mechanically played.

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