A scene missing but otherwise excellent movie
Added 6/25/2009
TRUE CRIME with Alicia Silverstone
I saw the trailer and don't understand why it shows her mother telling her that her father was NOT killed in the line of duty and it shows a policeman's hat burning in a garbage can. What is up with that? It's not in the movie. Why was this picture edited?
Otherwise, it has a lot of meaning because the killer actually told Mary (Silverstone) why he was killing. He had been humiliated because of his fear of heights. All the killings were connected to the carnival and Kathleen, Mary's classmate's little sister, was a champion swimmer and no doubt an active diver. I think this goes over a lot of people's heads who watch this movie. The killer hangs around the things that set him off- carnivals and swimming pools with high dives. Mary knew who the killer was the minute she looked at him. But breaking into a detective's office and sneaking through files and sharing them with a cadet who is obviously not a real cop because he is breaking rules himself....she was so desperate to solve the case she put herself at risk and people got killed because of her carelessness. She did stop a killer, though, but had to live with the memories of the people who died. A beautiful soundtrack, great music. Very good movie. Nice location.
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True Crime
Added 6/21/2008
I stumbled across this movie on Lifetime Television this morning. What caught my attention initially is how much Kevin Dillon sounds so much like his brother Matt (vocally).
I liked it for a TV movie and I felt for Mary at the end as I think her character really didn't wanna believe the "twist" that was taking place.
Kevin makes a good bad boy that's for sure. Both him & Matt play bad duded pretty damn well and they're easy on the eyes too!
Granted I don't think alot of people might feel the same way but I thought it was a neat little thriller that told it's story well in 90 minutes.
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Crime Caper
Added 4/11/2007
The ending has always stuck with me. A young girl following her dad to the police force. Not a great movie, maybe not even very good. But a story good enough to tell.A collrctable movie.
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SO bad you just have to love it
Added 3/27/2005
Let's face it sometimes you just need to sit through a bad movie. This one would be a fabulous choice !
Kevin Dillon is, well, Kevin Dillon. At least he remembered his lines.
Alicia Silverstone is an ugly virgin bookworm (yeah, sure).
The big mystery can pretty much be figured out within 10mns and you spend the next 80 screaming at Silverstone "Don't you GET IT by now, you MORON ????"
All in all a very very very bad flick I really enjoyed.
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I liked this
Added 4/6/2004
I like most of the movies Alicia Silverstone is in. I thought this movie was entertaining but i can see it as just a tv movie, im not suprised it wasnt in the theatres. It is probably on the same level or a little bit better than the babysitter which also starred Alicia silverstone. Movie is about a girl who is fascinated and interested in crime and detective work. Soon a fellow classmate is murdered and she starts to investigate the case along with the police officer played by ( matt dillon). While shes investigating signs are pointing to dillan as the killer and then things get worse from there. This was a pretty good thriller and if you like this i recomend the crush and the babysitter as well. Overall good story.
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"The Making of a Teenage Psycho"
Added 11/12/2009
"The Crush" is not a fantastic movie; it is a good movie that you can watch on a Friday night if you haven't anything else to watch. If your a fan of films that feature deranged women boardering on the line of insanity "The Crush" is for you. Alicia Silverstone plays a 14 year old obsessed by an older man, played by British cutie Cary Elwes (famous for his role in the first "Saw" film). When the older man doesn't return the same feelings that the young girl inhabits for him, all hell breaks out for him and those around him including his girlfriend. "The Crush" is very similar in theme to movies like "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle", "Misery", and "Fatal Attraction", that feature beautiful women wanting to wreak vengence on those around them for one reason or another. I enjoyed the film since I love female villin films. For Cary Elwes fans there's a hot shower scene featuring his back side as well. The DVD of the movie is pretty much barebones, but the film is in widescreen, subtitles are in English, French, and Spanish, and there are cast filmographies.
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A formula thriller that didn't really work
Added 10/6/2008
Characters were stereotypes, situations were contrived unrealistically to serve the plot. There was enough mystery to pull me all of the way through the story, but in the end it really did rang flat.
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one of the very few movies I'm choosing to keep my vhs copy of
Added 9/15/2008
This DVD is a huge disappointment. It may seem nit-picky to some people, but the fact that the lead female character's name was changed from Darian on the VHS version of the movie to Adrian on the DVD really really bugged me. I saw absolutely no point in this change, and it made me decide that I would just keep this particular movie on VHS so that I could watch it as I remember it. 1 star for the DVD and 4 stars for the actual movie.
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