
Nick Eliot, a 28-year-old newspaper reporter, moves into the guest house of the Forresters. Everything goes fine until he meets 14-year-old Adrienne, the Forresters' only child. When she develops a crush and is rebuffed, she retaliates with vengeance.... (Full plot summary below)
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Nick Eliot, a 28-year-old newspaper reporter, moves into the guest house of the Forresters. Everything goes fine until he meets 14-year-old Adrienne, the Forresters' only child. When she develops a crush and is rebuffed, she retaliates with vengeance.
Leave your thoughts about The Crush.
| TheBluFile.comDustin PutmanAn infectious little psychodrama, one with high replay value. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonAs directed and written by Alan Shapiro, this proves a crushingly childish and silly attempt at a thriller. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAs an unashamed B-movie, The Crush does what it says on the tin and entertains for an hour and a half. Except you feel kind of cheated by the supposed climax, with the build up proving more disturbing. Silverstone is convincingly equal parts Lolita and Norman Bates. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonThere's something scuzzy about the whole exercise. |
| The Blu SpotJeff BeckAlan Shapiro's The Crush suffers from a distinct lack of believability, turning what should have been a tense and horrific tale into a laughable mess. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.One of the stronger thrillers cut out of the cloth of "Fatal Attraction." |
| TV Guide MagazineJeff ShannonA harmless sex-teaser, from a first-time writer/director, which develops into a confused, cynical and third-rate exploitationer. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesLaura EmerickThere's something scuzzy about the whole exercise. |
| VarietyBrian LowryIn fact, with its basic shortage of gore and only brief glimpses of nudity, it’s hard to imagine what in the film prompted an R rating, unless it stands for “ridiculous.” |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovWith plot holes so large you could drive a HumVee through them, this debut film from director Shapiro is little more than a lousy hybrid, one part Fatal Attraction to two parts Lolita, only this time Humbert Humbert writes for trendy Pique! magazine and lives in Seattle (but doesn't everybody these days?). |