Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach, Jimmy Breslin
"Crazy Love" is an unsettling true story about an obsessive relationship between a married man and a beautiful, single 20-year old woman, which began in 1957 and continues today.
DVD Release Date: October 16, 2007
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Flixster Reviews (472)
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February 24, 2009This is one weird documentary, yet it is highly captivating. The story being presented has to be one of the, if not the most dysfunctional love stories of the past century. Crazy love only begins to describe this film....
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January 15, 2009the most disturbing thing to me is the light hearted tone of the film as it unravels the tale of two so obviously sick and desperately codependent individuals. definitely crazy; dunno about love
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December 1, 2007This documentary recounts the twisted tale of Burt Pugach, a successful New York lawyer who fell madly in love with 20 year-old Linda Riss in 1957. Linda initially loved the attention from the wealthy older man, but eventually tired of him and dumped him for someone closer to her...( read more)
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August 24, 2009Crime of passion is the most forgivable type of crime for me. So I don't see anything sick about this love story. This is like an endless love story like Romeo&Juliette, kind of romantic too.
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July 26, 2009A true testament to how crazy someone can become when they fall madly in love with somebody and the love is not received back.
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January 15, 2009Incredibly strange and twisted tale of love that must be seen to be believed!! This is the story of a lawyer who courts a young and pretty woman, who eventually leaves him after finding out he's married and has been lying to her. Except the man is completely obssessed with stalki...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
September 22, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
June 8, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Simultaneously disturbing and luridly entertaining. full review
June 8, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Crazy Love scrapes away the cartoon exterior around this story and peers into the unknowable murk of the human heart. full review
June 7, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Some stories are so weird they could only be true. full review
June 1, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Crazy Love uses archival footage and fresh interviews to get at the dark heart of a passion that spanned half a century. How? Damned if I know. But I couldn't stop watching. full review
June 1, 2007
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
What's missing from this unusual love story is love. full review
May 29, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The movie distills every functionally dysfunctional relationship you've ever had into one horrific case study. full review
May 27, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Crazy Love has a tabloid story to kill for, and a basic nonfiction form to snooze over. full review
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