Crush | 
| Director: John Mckay (iv)
Actors: Andie Macdowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, Bill Paterson
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 15759
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 07902
ISBN: 0767882970
UPC: 043396079021
EAN: 9780767882972
ASIN: B00006ADD0
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: August 27, 2002
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Product Description
This funny and touching story centers on Kate a forty-year-old respectable and successful headmistress in a small English village who gets together with her single friends Molly a doctor and Janie a local police detective every Monday to drink eat chocolate and decide who is the Saddest of the Week. Things start to turn displeasing between the three friends when Kate begins an affair with Jed a sexy 25-year old ex-pupil and is no longer the Saddest of the Week!System Requirements: Running Time 122 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 043396079021 Manufacturer No: 07902
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At first Crush seems to be merely the latest film to portray a clique of boozy, trash-talking women as part of a larger, liberated sisterhood worthy of celebration if not admiration. The lighthearted comedy abruptly detours, however, to expose vicious jealousies with brutal, unexpected consequences. A trio of single women in their 40s, Kate, Janine, and Molly (Andie MacDowell, Imelda Stanton, and Anna Chancellor) engage in a weekly ritual of gin, cigarettes, and joyous male sniping that despite its occasional glimpses of bare insecurity is all good "girl" fun. But when Kate, headmistress at the local school, takes up with a former student (Kenny Doughty) nearly 20 years younger and falls wildly in love, her closest friends, rather than embrace a true departure from social mores, plan instead to sabotage Kate's happiness and bring her to her senses. In one of the most inexplicable twists you're likely to see in a comedy, Janine and Molly's ploy takes an unexpectedly lethal turn, and Crush goes from amusing, if predictable, to downright nasty, and then back to end on a happy note. The effect is provocative, though perhaps unintended. --Fionn Meade
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 Proper Headmistress Takes a Leap...into Love June 8, 2009
Laurel-Rain Snow - Raine- (Fresno, California)
Crush is a delightful romp that reveals the bond of sisterhood between three forty-something women living in rural England. They get together, eat junk food, smoke, drink and commiserate...nothing could possibly break this bond. Right?
Until one of them (Kate,the headmistress played by Andie MacDowell) finds unexpected love with a former (twenty-something) student. At first, the "girls" are amused; but then when it seems that Kate's feelings contain as much love as lust, the conspiring begins.
Imelda Staunton and Anna Chancellor play the co-conspirators, who will do whatever it takes to get their friend back in the fold.
Tragedy follows, and then comes a powerful disconnect between the three friends...But just when all seems lost, an unexpected blessing brings the three back together into their tight-knit bond, but with a new and fresh perspective.
Somewhat predictable sisterhood flick...hence, the four stars.
Laurel-Rain Snow
Author of: Miles to Go, etc.
 Ugly and unbelievable February 24, 2009
J. C Clark (Overland Park, KS United States)
Several reviewers here have fallen into the silly groupthink that makes every character emblematic of their "demographic." No one is saying that all 40 year old women are desperate, sleazy, selfish and stupid. However, these three certainly are. Now, if that is a valid subject for a film is another question.....
One of the things that movies used to do, but seem to have forgotten how, is to show characters grow and change. When two people meet and fall in love, please, let us see some aspect of what sparks their attraction. But no more. What this couple sees in each other is never clear. I'm not doubting, I'm just wondering. We never see them together unless they are copulating or sharing coy glances. What do they talk about? What do they do when they ahe their clothes on? And they, like the busy doctor and the high-ranking police woman, sure seem to have lots of free time....
I have always found Andie MacDowell wildly over-rated. I bought the hype all those years ago and saw "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and found her uninteresting and unconvincing. "Groundhog Day" was a great film in spite of, not because of, her. Nothing I've seen her in was improved by her wooden and stilted delivery. And here she is so totally implausible as the headmistress of a school that you are almost forced to laugh. Not a ******* chance, guys. This silly woman has no drives other than libido and ego, no manifestation of intellect other than bookshelves full of nice old books, and no ability to lead anyone anywhere except to her crotch. What a pointless and dreary film. And the double meaning of the title is all the more unpleasant after the big shockeroo in the middle. By the time it is over, you will feel soiled and cheated. Unpleasant people treat each other badly, and everyone smiles at the end. Not in my world folks.
 What a disappointment January 14, 2008
K. Staszcuk (Madison, WI)
Despite the lighthearted appearance of the cover art, this dvd was not worth watching. Despite the gorgeousness of the young actor playing Jed (and he is beautiful), the plot is strange, not cohesive, and utterly unplausible. To add to the disastrousness, in the middle of some intense scenes, some of the most unintentionally laughable lines are delivered, detracting from the intent of the scenes. It comes across like a play written by a high school drama student. Seriously- don't bother.
What a drag! I want my two hours back! July 6, 2007
Zoe (Richmond. MN USA)
I took a chance on this movie because it was cheap, and I like these actresses. Yech! The plot is nearly non-existent, and the characters are shallow and totally lacking in dimension. There isn't one character you can empathize with. When I had finally sufferered through the end, it occurred to me that this storyline is drawn from that pool of women writers who believe that men must ultimately pay the price for every real or imagined injustice they've inflicted on the "heroine". Pu-lease!
For Heaven's Sake - Don't Buy This Movie! Or Watch It For That Matter February 24, 2007
Hazelnut
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This review is a warning to the innocent out there: Do not waste your time on this movie. There is a saying I heard: "Pay the Quarter." What this means is, pay the quarter for the two red-hot spears to poke your eyes out in frustration because you wasted two hours of your life watching a horrible movie. This is definitely a "Pay the Quarter" movie.
Why did I sit through this, then? I have no idea. The only saving grace is that I watched it on IFC and didn't pay a red cent to see it (well, if you don't count the cost of cable to get IFC).
This movie is completely unbelievable and insulting to women. If you believe this movie, all over-40 women are hopeless, insecure, neurotic (or in the case of the doctor chick- psychotic) wenches. Andie MacDowell is horribly miscast as the headmistress of an English school and I just felt sorry for her that she somehow got stuck in this ridiculous waste of a movie. What her "friends" did to her character is completely inexcusable and that she would take them back - let along have her little "get-togethers" with them again - is just unfathomable and unbelievable. There is not a shred of reality in this movie. Even the romance between Andie's character and the younger man falls flat. Sleeping with him in the backseat of the car? In your teens and 20s, maybe - but when you are in your 40s? Have some self-respect, woman! Maybe that was what the movie was trying to say in a bizarre way? Maybe the reason why I sat through this movie was to see where this miserable trainwreck of a movie would end up? Well it doesn't end in a good place, despite the "lighthearted" laughter with her reunited "friends." (Sounded more like forced laughter - and who could blame her?) Does the character even get that she is now a single mother? Was she that stupid? I dunno. But what I do know is don't waste your time watching it - even if it comes on IFC on a Saturday afternoon and you don't feel like doing anything else.
The only positive thing I could say about it is Andie MacDowell is beautiful as is the English countryside.
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