Synopsis
He thought it was just a crush. He was dead wrong.
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
1993 Directed by Alan Shapiro
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
Роковое увлечение, Увлечение без взаимности, Соблазнительница
actual things that happen in this movie:
- alicia silverstone screaming at the top of her lungs while cutting up lemons with a butcher knife in the middle of the night
- cary elwes punches alicia silverstone in the face so hard that she fucking flies across the room
- red from that 70s show brings an entire fucking carousel piece by piece to the top floor of his house in order to restore it? and then can't get it back down? because it's literally a carousel???? why did he bring it up there??
- cary elwes finds a shrine alicia silverstone made to him behind a secret door underneath a rug in his apartment with like 30 burning…
im sorry (not sorry) and i can't explain it but i LOoooOOoOOoOOOOOOoooooOoove movies about women preying on poor little helpless men
an MRA fantasy in cinematic form, the unironic version of Fincher's Gone Girl, but without the careful vacillation of tone and the heightened stylistics, The Crush is an awful movie only watchable thanks to its two leads, an awful movie that could have only come from the mind of a middle aged dude who thinks teen girls are too intense and who have the potentiality for murder. I thought of le femme hysterique's review of Crossroads and the subsequent discussion in the comment during this film: mainstream cinema is geared towards not only the male gaze, but masculine consumption practices in the sense that of course the teen girl is positioned as villain because of her sexuality and teen modes…
cary elwes is literally so handsome in this movie that he could've been sitting in front of a camera eating peanut butter from a jar with two fingers and i would have watched hours of it
someone compared cary elwes to armie hammer and now i cannot take this movie seriously
"and introducing Alicia Silverstone" - opening credits.
As a general rule, I try to avoid fist fights with children.
In The Crush, the 14 year old Adrian (19 year old Alicia Silverstone) falls for the man renting her parent's garage, Nick (Cary Elwes). Stalking and creepy sexualization ensues. This film works in a lot of scandalous ways but falls into the trap of generating male fantasy while pretending to criticize male fantasy. But fuck that nerd shit the movie is fine.
This movie does a decent job of capturing helplessness, stress, etc. but mostly this is just a silly film that's fun to trash. At one point they pan over Alicia Silverstone's body (from Cary Elwes pov) and a song with the line "You can taste that... if you want.... MMMMMMM" repeating, and that was too much for me to handle hahaha. WTF is that, what is this movie?
Recommended to fans of cringe and stalker horror.
cara?? a garota é uma psicopata, e o que é ainda mais problemático é o fato do vizinho de 28 ANOS ainda dá trela pra ela. a estrela só pela alicia silverstone.
Alicia Silverstone shines in her debut...
Add this to the list of movies that would never be made today.
And that's all I have to say about that.
I have so, so many questions for which I cannot imagine there are any answers, but the biggest one is DID COMPUTERS NOT HAVE PASSWORDS IN 1993????? I realize the futility of asking this question in 2021, when someone just broke into Nancy Pelosi’s office to find her computer completely open, accessible, and seemingly not password-protected in the slightest... but still, feels like a logical flaw that is slightly greater than the film’s many other logical flaws.
Cary Elwes is a serious hottie tho, so like who can really blame Alicia?
A predictable, paint-by-numbers, wannabe-provocative thriller. The proceedings are partially (marginally...) redeemed by a game cast (I’m always down for Cary Elwes in a leading role) and some solid direction that shines through periodically, but for the most part, this is devoid of much cleverness or invention. Instead of playing with tropes, it simply presents them and then marches through, checking off the list in an extremely perfunctory way. There are a few moments where it feels like the movie is flirting with going in a much crazier direction, but it inevitably gets pulled back from the brink every time it threatens to actually get entertaining.
this is a film that promotes the narrative that 14 year old girls are crazy seductive psychopaths who want to frame innocent men (he only did a little peeping!) for rape bc theyre in love with them. very realistic and non biased. it’s true men, you ARE the victims.
i personally can’t stand seeing the freaky villain be obsessed over boring, geeky guys. i just can’t imagine being that hung up over a loser
It was honestly kind of hilarious while also being infuriating. I just watched it because of the Marina and the Diamonds "Bubblegum Bitch" fan video and actually liked it.
at the end a 28 year old man punches a 14 year old girl in the face so hard she flies across the whole room
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