Like Crazy [Includes Digital Copy] [UltraViolet] [Blu-ray]

Director: Drake Doremus Drake Doremus

Overview

Drake Doremus' romantic drama Like Crazy stars Felicity Jones as Anna, a British girl who comes to America to attend college. In Los Angeles she falls madly in love with fellow student Jacob (Anton Yelchin), who returns her affection absolutely. However, when she overstays her visa, the government kicks her out of the United States, forcing the lovebirds to maintain a long-distance relationship and overcome a number of problems to keep their relationship alive.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/06/2012
UPC:	0097361462547
Original Release:	2011
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Paramount
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00

Special Features

Deleted scenes; Commentary by director Drake Doremus, editor Jonathan Alberts and cinematopher John Guleserian

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Anton Yelchin	Jacob
Felicity Jones	Anna,Ross
Jennifer Lawrence	Sam
Charlie Bewley	Simon
Alex Kingston	Jackie
Oliver Muirhead	Bernard
Finola Hughes	Liz
Chris Messina	Mike Appletree
Jamie Thomas King	Elliott,Kissing Couple
Amanda Carlin	American Consulate Woman
Barry Sabath	Professor
Keeley Hazell	Sabrina
Kayla Barr	College Roommate
James Messer	Delivery Man
Natalie Blair	Natalie
Robert Pike Daniel	Court Clerk
Jimmy Tamborello	Figurine Band Member
Meredith Landman	Figurine Band Member
David Foster	Figurine Band Member
Iris Taylor Cameron	Customs Official #1
Michael Lovett	Customs Official #2
Manal El Masri	Customs Official #3
Callie Beckmann	Ticketing Agent #2
Michael Hyatt	Customs Agent
Julian Stone	Harry
Eric Satterberg	Jacob's Friend
John Weselcouch	Jacob's Friend
Michael Reilly	Jacob's Friend
David Cuddy	Jacob's Friend
Katie Wallack	Alex
Julia Montague	Kissing Couple
Jo Victoria Russell	Girl in Market
Vickie Moss	Girl in Market
Dermot Canavan	Janitor
David Forster	Figurine Band Member
Stephen Young	Ticketing Agent #1
Dustin O'Halloran	Composer

Technical Credits

Drake Doremus

Ben York Jones

Drake Doremus	Director,Screenwriter
Ben York Jones	Screenwriter
Andrea Sperling	Producer
Zygi Wilf	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Steven Rales	Executive Producer,Producer
Mark Roybal	Executive Producer,Producer
Jeffrey Pomeroy	Sound/Sound Designer
Paul Stanley	Sound/Sound Designer
Jonathan Schwartz	Producer
Eyde Belasco	Casting
Andy Hay	Sound/Sound Designer
Stephen Nelson	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

Some romantic films want you to feel good. They want to threaten heartbreak, but most leave you with a sense that everything is right with the world when two soul mates end up together. Drake Doremus's Like Crazy goes the other route, wanting you to feel the rush, the terror, the exhilaration, and the pain of love from its first flowering to the point when you don't know if it can live any longer. Anna (Felicity Jones) is a Brit studying journalism at a California college. She shares a class with Jacob (Anton Yelchin), a cute design major specializing in furniture. She leaves him a note saying she wants to meet him, they discover they share a love for Paul Simon, and soon the two can't get enough of each other. Their attraction is so strong that Anna chooses to overstay her student visa, and then isn't allowed back into the U.S. after a quick trip home for a family event. Separated by an ocean, the two try to keep their passion alive with phone calls and infrequent visits, but each is tempted by people closer to them, and their little personality quirks that never mattered before grow more and more irritating. It's easy to lay the credit for this wonderfully affecting film at the feet of the lead actors. Yelchin has a quietness about him that's rare for a leading man, especially one so young. He turns Jacob into a tongue-tied manboy whose brain can't keep up with his powerful emotions. His vulnerability is appealing, but when he gets angry, the quietness takes on a dismissive edge that's chilling. In her own way, Jones does the same thing by portraying the ambitious Anna as someone who tries to outthink her emotions before giving herself over to them completely. This dynamic plays out in a phone call between the two in which she convinces him to come to England for the first time. It's a scene full of little moments, as both try to pretend everything is all right and are unable to reveal the truth to each other. The leads aren't the only actors doing excellent work here. Alex Kingston plays Anna's mom, a straightforward, almost embarrassingly honest woman who knows her daughter better than she knows herself, and Jennifer Lawrence impresses as Jacob's assistant and stateside squeeze while Anna is in Europe. But for all the actors' skill, director and co-writer Drake Doremus deserves just as much adulation. He makes the savvy decision to keep these two lovebirds separated in very creative ways. For example, during their first date at a restaurant, Doremus never lets the two of them share the frame -- he uses a wall to keep one of them blocked at all times. It's a smart maneuver, because it gets us to think about these two people as individuals rather than as a couple. Right from the start we're forced to consider that maybe they shouldn't be together, and because of this there's genuine tension throughout Like Crazy -- there's no way to be sure they'll be able to make their relationship work, and occasionally we're not sure if we want them to. We root for them as people, and that might mean we should be hoping that they break up.