Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 06/29/2001(USA)
Release Date: 11/13/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DTS
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Watch With Your Teen, Youth Substance Use
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
The
Romeo and Juliet story has been modernized to a high school setting previously, but this
romance from director
John Stockwell turns the tale inside out.
Jay Hernandez stars as
Carlos Nunez, a poor but athletically gifted Latino teenager who endures a two-hour bus ride every day from East L.A. to attend the posh, wealthy Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles on a football scholarship. A straight-A student,
Carlos is focused and driven, but his future is cast in doubt when he becomes the flirtation target of spoiled, self-destructive bad girl
Nicole Oakley (
Kirsten Dunst), who's the daughter of a prominent congressman (
Bruce Davison). When his friends, family, and even
Nicole's own father oppose the
romance for
Carlos' sake, he chooses to ignore their advice and stubbornly pursues his relationship with
Nicole, whose feelings grow from simple physical attraction to something much deeper.
Crazy/beautiful is directed by writer, actor, and director
John Stockwell, who also penned the same year's
Rock Star.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide