Crazy Love

Name: Crazy Love
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 1, 2007
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach

2007

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: June 1, 2007 | PG-13

Starring: Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach

Summary: 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. (Magnolia Pictures)

Director: Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 92 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Of the long list of couples who have loved neither wisely nor particularly well, few have such power to disturb as Burton Pugach and the love of his life, Linda Riss. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The tale itself is so spectacularly perverse, and the film stays so authentically close to the personalities involved, that you don't feel dirty -- you feel cleansed. Read full review

David Edelstein

It takes some time to realize we're in a maelstrom--going down down down into a saga of obsession, sadism, masochism, and codependency that was and remains one of the great, sick tabloid stories of all time. Read full review

Carina Chocano

At one point, Klores thought about making a feature film out of the material, but it's a good thing he decided against it. You could not make this stuff up. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Pugach's selfishness, his inability to detach love from gratification, is the key to this crazy story. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Though the subject matter sounds depressing, Crazy Love has an infectious, even bouncy tone. Read full review

Tamara Straus

It leaves one feeling queasy about human nature. Read full review

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mathewB.

Jul 8, 2007

Great story, interesting interviews. Sort of a boring doc. style, and a few unanswered questions, hurt an otherwise great untold story. worth watching.

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JimG.

Jun 19, 2007

Wow. Truth really is stranger than fiction. Engaging tale, crisply told.

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AndrewK.

Jun 30, 2007

I'm really surprised at how much the reviewers trash the director of this film. A true documentarian doesn't stamp his views all over the film. He lets the audience decide for themselves. What to say about Burt and Linda? Not knowing anything at all about them, and having read the I'm really surprised at how much the reviewers trash the director of this film. A true documentarian doesn't stamp his views all over the film. He lets the audience decide for themselves. What to say about Burt and Linda? Not knowing anything at all about them, and having read the brief reviews on here, I assumed that maybe they were in the mafia. Not so. Burt is a sleazebag lawyer and Linda is an ordinary, beautiful young girl when the story begins. Things turn ugly fast. What he does to her is terrible. And then comes the real surprise. I won't say what it is because I don't want to ruin it for anybody. But if you've never heard of these two, I advise you be introduced to them the same way I was. With this documentary. You won't believe that it's true. You may find them both to be, literally, crazy, as the title suggests. But in the end, who are we to judge? They seem to be happy. Or at least not miserable.… Expand

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