Crazy/Beautiful

2001
12
1h 39m

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Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez in Crazy/Beautiful (2001)

At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.

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6.4/10

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Awards
- 5 nominations total

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Storyline

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Trivia
Jay Hernandez had to learn many of his Spanish lines phonetically because he does not speak fluent Spanish.

Goofs
Nicole's hair color changes from blonde to red and back to blonde. The whole movie her hair is blonde except during the hotel scene when she is outside wrapped in a blanket and tells Carlos she wants to be good for him it is red. The next shot, when they are in the car taking her back home her hair is blonde again and stays that way through the rest of the movie. The red hair was due to Kirsten Dunst starting to film Spider-Man (2002)

Quotes
Carlos: [Nicole's father is outside their love nest] Oh, shit.
Nicole: What? What's wrong?
Carlos: Who's that?
Nicole: Who's what?
Carlos: That guy right there.
Nicole: Oh, that? That's my dad.
[chuckles, kisses Carlos]
Nicole: It's okay!
Carlos: He's, like, right there.
Nicole: He doesn't care. I can do anything. I've got a condom. He'd be so proud.
[Carlos shakes his head]
Nicole: I'm serious. He'd be thrilled I'm sleeping with you. A person of color in his daughter's bed.
Carlos: [scoffs] You're crazy.
Nicole: You're beautiful.
[kisses him again]

Alternate versions
The film was originally planned as a R rated feature, but then Disney executives decided to cut the film for a more commercial PG-13 rating. To do this 35 obscenities were deleted, a sex scene was bowdlerized and a character's drug use was deleted.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence/The Fast and the Furious/Dr. Dolittle 2/The Princess and the Warrior (2001)

Soundtracks
Ten La Fe
Written by Mellow Man Ace (as Ulpiano Reyes) and DJ Muggs (as Larry Muggerud)
Performed by Mellow Man Ace
Courtesy of Cleopatra Records

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Featured review

7/10

Nicely made romantic teen movie.

This is a great executed romantic teen movie. Even though nothing in the story of course happens as a real surprise, the movie still knows how to create a believable and touching story about love with more than enough original touches in it.

The main reason why the movie works so well is thanks to the two main actors of the movie; Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez. Both are great in their roles and their love story in the movie is believable and realistic. Their cultural difference are nicely shown in the movie but their social class difference is perhaps a bit underdeveloped and underused. They could had done some nice things with this story element, so it's a bit of a missed opportunity for the movie.

The story is nicely told and the stereotypical elements of a romantic teen movie are as much as possible avoided. It succeeds most of the time in this and because of that the movie is better than the average romantic teen comedy.

It's a perfectly watchable movie mainly targeted towards teens, however also different age groups should be able to appreciate this movie and its love story. A recommendable movie but by no means a must see of course.

7/10

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