Metacritic Film

C.R.A.Z.Y.

Starring Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Émile Vallée, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Maxime Tremblay, Alex Gravel, and Natasha Thompson

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

TVA Films
Comedy  |  Drama  |  Foreign
127 minutes | Color
Canada
Released In Theaters September 11, 2005

The story of a special little boy who grows into young manhood and ends up even denying his inner self to attract his father's attention. A portrait of a family that depicts the often-extraordinary lives of ordinary people in search of happiness. (TVA Films)

WRITTEN BY
François Boulay
Jean-Marc Vallée

DIRECTED BY
Jean-Marc Vallée

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

81 / 100

Critic Reviews

88 Miami Herald
An exuberant, disarming entertainment.
88 The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The reality measures up to the rep.
80 Empire Liz Beardsworth
Fantastic performances, sharp wit and a raw honesty breathe new life into the rites-of-passage drama.
70 The Hollywood Reporter
Although Vallee's remarkably assured film, which clocks in at more than two hours, proves that it's possible to have too much of a good thing, Canada's official Oscar submission for best foreign-language feature still manages keep up the entertaining yet emotionally satisfying pace sufficiently to earn audience accolades.
70 Variety Jay Weissberg
The whole family can feel comfortable watching C.R.A.Z.Y., Jean-Marc Vallee's bouncy coming-of-age tale that coasts along on a terrific soundtrack and a spot-on feel for period detail. Story of a tight-knit Catholic family and their sexually confused son never goes near anything that might make mainstream auds uncomfortable, sticking with an old-fashioned tone balanced by inventive lensing that gives only the illusion of dipping its toe in risky waters.

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