Like Crazy

It has the schmaltzy trappings of my romantic films, but Like Crazy allows its characters to express themselves beyond dialogue, crafting a true, intimate study.

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Like Crazy is the latest and most lightweight addition to a welcome recent trend of bittersweet, realistic semi-romances that includes Blue Valentine and Weekend. Like those films, it pits the delicate vulnerability of its central relationship against the unforgiving forward march of time, the passage of which, as much as distance, complicates the bond between young lovers. Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones meet as college students at UCLA—he’s a TA and is studying furniture design, she’s British and aspires to be a writer. The two fall in delirious first love, but her visa’s only good until graduation. When she pushes it to stay for the summer before heading home, she’s not allowed back into the U.S. because of the violation, and the pair are left to embark on a painful, drawn-out, and sometimes exasperating affair of long-distance calls, flights, legal struggles, and tearful reunions.

Directed by Drake Doremus. In the film, Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones play Jacob and Anna, star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of the Atlantic, separated by Visa problems. Lawrence's character Samantha is essentially an 'other woman'.

Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is fragile. When a British college student (Felicity Jones).

Her scenes in the movie.

Here’s the first trailer for Like Crazy, the winner of the Sundance Festival’s Best Picture and Best Actress jury awards. The indie film stars Anton Yelchin (Star Trek), Felicity Jones (Brideshead Revisited) and Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone and upcoming The Hunger Games). The story is about a long-distance romance — a British college student who …

It has the schmaltzy trappings of my romantic films, but Like Crazy allows its characters to express themselves beyond dialogue, crafting a true, intimate study.

Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Drake Doremus and starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence.

Directed by Drake Doremus. With Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley. A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.