Crazy/Beautiful (2001)

Absolutely Fantastic

Absolutely Brilliant!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This one was really bad, really flaky. It is a story of a strung out unstable girl who doesn't know what she wants and pretends to be in love with some walking stereo-type because she feels sorry for herself and wants to kill herself and sabotage her life. The acting is done by a reluctant actress which is perfect because it portrays what the average girl would be like in such a situation (sarcastic, lying, only doing it to hurt others and sabotage herself instead of suicide.) What a depressing bad-romp. It is filled with every kind of insulting blatant stereo-type and a propaganda of hatred toward white males. This has such a hateful rhetoric that it would be on par with movies that the Nazis would have made. Moral of the story is don't half-bad things in life.. do what you do with your whole being without being hurt, don't do things sarcastically, put your whole being into it. When you do not then you are promoting the most disgusting selfish kind of hatred no different than Nazi propaganda.

While picking up trash on the beach, as part of her community service sentence for robbing a "7-Eleven" convenience store, unkempt blonde "rich-girl" Kirsten Dunst (as Nicole Oakley) meets handsome Hispanic "poor boy" Jay Hernandez (as Carlos Nunez). The mutually attracted pair find out they go to the same high school, but have different groups of friends. She likes to go out and get drunk. He wants to get good grades and attend the US Naval Academy. He's on the football team. She's a skank. These differences lead to conflict, which threatens their love relationship. Complicating matters, her father is a Congressman..."Crazy/Beautiful" is interesting in how it switches what you may expect to be the "bad" and "good" characters. With her beauty intentionally toned down (but bouncy sexiness intact), Ms. Dunst identifies her bad-girl as the "crazy" co-star and Mr. Hernandez as the "beautiful" half. The labeling occurs in an amusing scene where Dunst aggressively moves her head down toward Hernandez' lower body, but is interrupted by her father (Bruce Davidson). Hernandez turns away, but Dunst isn't shy about having sex in front of dad because she has retrieved a condom from the kitchen cabinet. Director John Stockwell helms his sexy scenes well...Hernandez is intentionally more beautiful than Dunst. They do not impress as a high school-aged couple, with Hernandez suffering more. His eyebrows are plucked to perfection; obviously, each individual hair was carefully considered before removal. Hernandez' make-up is too delicately applied. With all the loving looks at Hernandez' beautiful chest, we wonder if the character would be more plausible as a professional model than a high school football player. In fact, Hernandez' character could have been a college student and Dunst a high school drop-out. That would have been more convincing. Still, they are great looking couple.***** Crazy/Beautiful (6/28/01) John Stockwell ~ Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Lucinda Jenney

Crazy/Beautiful is a poignant teen film about a rich girl in Kirsten Dunst who's a behavioral problem to her father Bruce Davison and stepmother Lucinda Janney. When East LA Barrio kid Carlos Hernandez first meets her, she's doing community service picking up trash on the beach. They discover they go to the same school.Hernandez is her total opposite. He's doing a two hour commute to her 90210 type high school he can reap the advantages thereof. He's a hardworking student and top football player and he wants to go to Annapolis. Oh by the way, when Hernandez meets Davison, she's forgotten to tell him that daddy is a Congressman.Davison is a liberal sort so the racial thing doesn't terribly bother him. But he thinks Hernandez will screw himself up if he gets involved with Dunst. God knows she's doing a wonderful job of that in her family relationships.This was to be a big breakout role for Hernandez who was fresh from the TNBC morning show Hang Time. If he hasn't had quite the career a lot including myself expected of him, not the fault of this film because he and Dunst are a very attractive couple. Crazy/Beautiful is a sensitive and caring drama, a good film for the younger audience.

Hi my name is Tom Barry and I don't know why this movie is so underrated. It's totally my favorite movie ever. Kirsten Dunst is the absolute best thing to happen to Hollywood since Tom Cruise. I love her so much and I love all her movies. In this movie she plays a tough girl with some serious problems, but then she meets the guy of her dreams who makes everything alright again. Oh boy, this is a recipe for movie magic! I honestly think this is the most perfect movie ever made. The acting is so realistic and emotional. Jay Hernandez has his break out role in this movie. If you thought he was good in Hostel, you'll love him in this one. But Kirsten steals the show with her magnetic smile and stunning bod. I think about her performance every night before I go to sleep, this movie has affected me that much. Obviously, there is something in my personal life that relates so much to this movie, but I still think it is the most overlooked movie ever."You are Crazy/Beautiful" ---- best quote ever!