To have a `Crush' on this movie is a matter of definition!

janyeap

Call me an over-sensitive knit-wit, perhaps, for I did enjoy this `bitter-sweet' romantic drama! Definitely for anyone who's still unsure what true love really means!

This movie is saddled with absolutely credible characters, plausible events and a great script. Three successful career women, but nonetheless, hard on their luck in finding decent suitors! Women who prefer to mope around together, keeping up with their alcoholic consumption, perpetually lighting up their fags, and satisfying their obesity for chocs! At least, until their lives get CRUSHed when Andie MacDowell's Kate has a CRUSH on Kenny Doughty's gorgeously talented Jed CRUSH! Gosh what an appropriate movie title!

This movie is scripted with such an incredible number of puns to keep one's head spinning! Definitely great puns that sweep up laughter, emotions and disbelief!  And all serving as a cue to the definition of `love.'  Just watch how the Kate-Jed ecstatic sexual relationship plays on Kate's buddies!

Great performances overall! And MacDowell's performance is strikingly fabulous. Yep, good solid acting that should receive an Oscar nod! Her facial expressions and her physical appearances are wonderfully coherent with the different stages of her moods and condition. Anna Chancellor and Imelda Stauntan are well casted in their roles to support the events that follow Kate.

Amazingly beautiful shots of a neat English village, credibly filled with an air of prim and pomp. Yep, an English countryside filled with uniformed school children and stuffy villagers, including a shy, old village vicar! Yep, the quaint sort of population who will break into whispers over the minutest scandal!  Guess what? If you think Kate's relationship is a societal taboo, how then would you define Molly and Janine's final success with love!

The movie is fast-paced. Even the flashbacks work well as an important reminder to Kate and Jed's relationship. There are some edgy moments to the story that help prevent boredom to seep into the plot. And thumbs up to its originality. I was totally absorbed. Even the ending does work to sum up the whole!

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janyeap 16 April 2002

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