Crush

Crush (1992)

  • 36% of critics liked it
    (81 reviews)

  • 55% of users liked it
    (4,653 ratings)

Produced with the help of the Sundance Institute, Alison Maclean's first feature, Crush, is a clever, gynocentric neo-noir. Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock) stars as Lane, the film's conflicted femme fatale. The film opens with Lane speeding along a winding road. She's driving… More

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In Theaters
Apr 5, 2002 Wide
Sony Pictures Classics

Critic Reviews

  • Loren King, Chicago Tribune

    Mixes slapstick, poignancy, tragedy and sophisticated wit.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    While McKay's debut feature is witty, weepy and easy on the eyes, it never lets the obligation to entertain interfere with the messy flow of human responses.

  • , Globe and Mail

    ...the plot is so mechanical it squeaks.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    Crush is a half-comedy, half-weepie that doesn't really work, though Andie MacDowell is quite wonderful.

  • Harry Guerin, RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

    While it would be easy to give Crush the new title of Two Weddings and a Funeral, it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of Hugh Grant whimsy.

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  • Leigh R


    Hard movie to get through. Pretty okay movie though.

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