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
- 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.