That was an excellent one.

Beautiful, moving film.

Awesome Movie

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Crazy/Beautiful, originally inspired by Lauren Greenfeld photos 'Fast Forward'. A 'crazy' Malibu daughter of a wealthy congressman and a 'beautiful' first generation Mexican son of a hard-working Mexican-American family: 'Crazy/Beautiful are these two 17-years-students at a high school in Pacific Palisades. Nicole: wild, a drinker, sexually bold, reckless. Without much makeup on her face she gives the impression of being naked and 'ugly'. Without a future as everything has been thrown over board: every possible rule she did not care. Everything lost and the only option the 'nicoledecision' "so what!". But: "I wish I wasn't the child that everybody learned what not to do from." The grade A student Carlos with big dreams for a better barriofuture endures a two-hour bus ride every morning to school. The beautiful Carlos and the crazy Nicole are ready for the mistakes of their first love. Nicole and everybody know: in her sphere are all doomed. Her father warns Carlos: "For your own good, for my piece of mind. Stay away from my daughter. You know, it's a painful thing for a father. I can't help you alone". The fatherless Carlos vs the motherless Nicole. Nicole is the first of them to realize: "I think I'm in love with you, sorry." And later: "There are millions of people in this world, but in the end it all comes down to one. I still panic sometimes, forget to breathe, but I know that there's something beautiful in my imperfections; the beauty that he held up for me to see. The strength that I will never be able to say." And assuring him: "I want to be good for you." But Carlos, son of a poor barrio family, family helped to be something better, has a lot to loose. This the reason why he listens as the fatherless son he is to the congressman's warning. And Nicole knows: "What did he tell you, Stay away from me, the lost cause?" "I just..." answers Carlos. But! Both are beyond the point-of-no-return, following Hollywoods twists and turns. After their split: The worried Carlos fetches her from that wild party. Both are caught in a police control and Nicole delivered at her home. (Stepmom Courtney: "What kind of daughter are you?" Nicole: "Not yours." Courtney: "Thank god for that.") At school the day after she collects her belongings. Carlos sees her with a man. Not her father but an official to escort her to Utah. And Carlos reacts, despite midterm exams, realizing 'his' 17-years-first-love. Their run-away, their talk at the motel and her return home. The schmaltzy ending. The soft kindness of the good-enough-father is unable to set the rule when needed. Nothing else but a fathers obligation. A none-father and a none-husband when needed, the reason that he lost his daughter, the reason for his wives suicide? Instead an institution as step-in-father with official escort: "Why do you hate me so much? How could you tell the only person in the world that I love, that I care about so much, how could you tell him to stay away from me? Do you think that the only thing I'll ever do to someone is screw them up? That I'm not worth loving?" At Carlos sisters birthday party Nicole sees that she is far more poor than the birthday celebrating poor barrio family: "You can be anywhere where when your life begins. You meet the right person and anything is possible." Here, beyond everything: ready for the real. What Crazy/beautiful teaches (eavesdropping) is that the nicolestyle is the only option but not easy. To come to this kind of point-of-no-return and be there as unwanted outcast waiting - waiting for one of the millions. The movie wanted more, but had in mind the PG-13 rating, limited to those over 17. The movie lets us see people and not look at case studies.

I caught this movie on TV a while back when there was absolutely nothing else to watch. Since i'm not a fan of neither teen-movies nor Kirsten Dunst expectations weren't high.The problem with a movie like this one is not that it's awful, because it's not. I can name probably ten other teen movies that are more horrible than this one. Especially since here the emotional drivel didn't reach the sappy levels the story and theme allowed for, which was good. But still this is not a good movie. It's just too bland and uninteresting. I don't really know what in this movie we were supposed to care about. The distracted A-student from the hood is not a terribly interesting character (also a character that's been done about a thousand times in different shapes and colors). The spoiled rich girl with emotional problems is an equally worn-out cliché. It just doesn't have anything that creates interest or sympathy.Sometimes i ask myself which is worse; the movie that is so bad that i hate it, or the movie that's so bland i don't care. A difficult question. One thing is certain anyway, this movie is one that i won't remember at all this time next year.

i saw Crazy/Beautiful more than 4 or 5 times and i still find it as charming as ever.i really found Nicole to be very cool.i would like to have girlfriend like her :)(lol).she is portrayed as a girl who likes to have fun and also let people around her enjoy.Carlos's condition is very aptly portrayed on screen. he is from a lower middle class background so definitely his goals are a priority.but just then both of them find each other. they spend time and have fun. they also eventually have a clash but at the end Carlos discovers that its love which will hold him and make him better.so he breaks all rules and dogmas and he risks everything and in the end they both emerge successful and Nicole helps him to enroll into flying academy.Nicole is the most sweetest girl in the movie and very caring.the movie is fun,has emotions and will touch you deep. u will end up being and feeling different. see it to believe it.. best wishes..

This was an excellent performance by the two lead actors, Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez. Their actions and situations were gritty and real, and they seemed very much like real un-Hollywood type characters throughout. And wow ... this was truly a great illustration of the strength of genuine love despite imperfections, despite society's view of what's right and what's wrong and what's successful and what's not. And most of all, I was greatly struck by the illustration of how belief in a person (and love for a person) whom others find unacceptable or unlovable can so powerfully TRANSFORM that person. The Kirsten Dunst character goes through a rather big change, a change that you would've thought impossible, but she pulls it off believably.