Like Crazy (2011) poster
2011 · drama · romance

Like Crazy

Directed by Drake Doremus1h 30m2011
ElsewhereIMDb6.664kRT70%Metacritic68
  • measured
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Like Crazy (2011) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want raw long-distance heartache that feels uncomfortably real and beautifully shot.

ends bittersweetit stays with yougrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if improvised mumblecore drift or visa-heartbreak misery feels too familiar.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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