The Crush

Name: The Crush
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: April 2, 1993
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 34
Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Amber Benson, Andrew Airlie, Beverley Elliott, Cary Elwes

1993

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 2, 1993 | R

Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Amber Benson, Andrew Airlie, Beverley Elliott, Cary Elwes, Deborah Hancock, Gwynyth Walsh, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith, Matthew Walker

Summary: A journalist (Cary Elwes) becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl (Alicia Silverstone), who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances.

Director: Alan Shapiro

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 89 min

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Mick LaSalle

The Crush is the latest in the growing ''from hell'' genre, about all the fun things that happen when a ferocious, precocious 14-year-old girl develops an intense crush on the nice-guy journalist who rents a guest house from the girl's parents. Things start innocent. Get worse. Get horrible. Get ridiculous. You know the formula. Working within that formula, The Crush isn't bad.

David Baron

Viewed as anything but fodder for scares, The Crush is silly business. Its villainess is much less credible than Barrymore's, while its landscaping and decor manifest a lot more thought than its psychology. Nonetheless, the picture manages to sustain an effectively creepy atmosphere for most of its 80-odd minutes, making it tolerable for moviegoers content with nothing more. [8 Apr 1993, p.E10]

TV Guide Magazine

Yet another variation on the woman-from-hell subgenre, THE CRUSH fails to come up with many new twists beyond casting a teenager as its villain. Dancing around its own salacious possibilities, the movie is only briefly offensive and rarely surprising. Read full review

Laura Emerick

In a world already corrupted with Amy and Joey, and Woody Allen and Soon Yi, the last thing we need is a movie like "The Crush" masquerading as entertainment. [6 Apr 1993, p.29]

Michael Wilmington

This is one more "yuppie-in-peril" movie, just as slick and empty, manipulative and crude, as most of the rest: all those paranoid pictures bent on scaring us with insane roommates, murderous baby-sitters and killer temps. [5 Apr 1993, p.F3]

Janet Maslin

Never succeeds in becoming either torrid or scary. It does generate a few chuckles in its depiction of what are supposedly the workings of a chic and hard-hitting magazine...The Crush is for the most part grindingly predictable and mechanically played. Read full review

Joe Holleman

Is there really a need to make a 14-year-old the sexual object of adults' attention? A coming-of-age movie that tries to sympathize with a teen-ager can be enlightening. A movie that tries to tantalize us with a child is shameful. Second, the stereotype of the treacherous Lolita taking advantage of a man twice her age is not only sexist, it's misogynistic. Take The Crush and can it. [9 Apr 1993, p.3F]

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MrPajamas

Sep 21, 2021

Several feelings at once. It's quite sweet at first, let's say. A young girl falls for an older man and wants to be with him no matter what it takes. But after a while it gets pretty psycho and there's a gradation that's... good? It's definitely there and the character changes throughout theSeveral feelings at once. It's quite sweet at first, let's say. A young girl falls for an older man and wants to be with him no matter what it takes. But after a while it gets pretty psycho and there's a gradation that's... good? It's definitely there and the character changes throughout the film, but in a pretty crazy way. How can I put this. It shocked me. That's definitely a good thing. The movie got my attention. On the one hand, by the end I thought it was getting really psycho and like I don't know if maybe it was a little over the top. It's hard to say. It's hard for me to rate it. I liked the movie quite a bit. I don't know who to recommend it to. It's not a romantic movie after all. After a while, it gets to be quite a massacre. Maybe recommend it to those who like romantic movies, but grittier? I don't know. It's just not a romantic movie, although it's about love. For me, an above average film that I would rather not recommend.… Expand

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