Crazy Love

Crazy Love
by Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens

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Actor: Burt Pugach, Jimmy Breslin, Linda Pugach
Director: Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Magnolia

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Movie Review: Very Cool
Summary: 5 Stars

I wasn't entirely familiar with this tabloid tale of 50s love run amok. This film puts it all together, and the final product is very well conceived. The flashbacks and 50s footage are perfect vintage. Pugach looked like one cool cat back then, even if he was evidently nuts. Linda today looks a fright, but she was pretty hot back then and you can see why she drove one man to places no one should ever go. The soundtrack is fabulous and dead on matches the on-screen drama. Nice work and very entertaining.

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If it were a novel, the story of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss would be rejected as ludicrous: When Pugach discovered that Riss was engaged to marry another man, he hired thugs to throw lye in her face, blinding her. But after almost two decades in prison, Pugach emerged as obsessively in love with Riss as ever and continued to woo her--successfully. This flabbergasting true story is slowly unveiled, thanks to marvelously adroit editing, through interviews with Pugach, Riss, many of their friends, and various media figures like Jimmy Breslin, who followed the twists and turns of this saga as it played out in the courts and the papers. The key to the movie, though, is not the plot so much as the characters: Not only are Pugach and Riss a fascinating psychological study, all of their friends are standout personalities as well, each with their own take on what happened. The big events are bizarre enough, but it's the strange small twists--just how Pugach and Riss were brought back together, for example--that push the story into the realm of tabloid surrealism. (One detail that doesn't give much away: Prior to meeting Riss, Pugach co-produced a movie called Death Over My Shoulder.) Skillful use of historical footage keeps the movie from just being a series of talking heads and provides period texture. Crazy Love is yet more evidence that we are living in a golden era of wildly entertaining and engaging documentaries. --Bret Fetzer

Dan Klores' CRAZY LOVE tells the astonishing story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach which shocked the nation during the summer of 1959. Burt a 32 year-old married attorney and Linda a beautiful single 20 year-old girl living in the Bronx had a whirlwind romance which culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed the pair's saga on the cover of endless newspapers and magazines.With the cooperation of the principles Burt now 79 and Linda 68 Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love obsession insanity hope and forgiveness. CRAZY LOVE recently had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and earned the Best Documentary award at the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival.System Requirements:Running Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: PG-13 UPC: 876964000970 Manufacturer No: 10097

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