At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.
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- 5 nominations
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- TriviaJay Hernandez had to learn many of his Spanish lines phonetically because he does not speak fluent Spanish.
- GoofsNicole's hair color changes from blonde to red and back to blonde. The whole movie her hair is blonde except during the hotel scene when she is outside wrapped in a blanket and tells Carlos she wants to be good for him it is red. The next shot, when they are in the car taking her back home her hair is blonde again and stays that way through the rest of the movie. The red hair was due to Kirsten Dunst starting to film Spider-Man (2002)
- Alternate versionsThe film was originally planned as a R rated feature, but then Disney executives decided to cut the film for a more commercial PG-13 rating. To do this 35 obscenities were deleted, a sex scene was bowdlerized and a character's drug use was deleted.
- SoundtracksTen La Fe
Written by Mellow Man Ace (as Ulpiano Reyes) and DJ Muggs (as Larry Muggerud)
Performed by Mellow Man Ace
Courtesy of Cleopatra Records
Featured review
Crazy/Beautiful is a poignant teen film about a rich girl in Kirsten Dunst who's a behavioral problem to her father Bruce Davison and stepmother Lucinda Janney. When East LA Barrio kid Carlos Hernandez first meets her, she's doing community service picking up trash on the beach. They discover they go to the same school.
Hernandez is her total opposite. He's doing a two hour commute to her 90210 type high school he can reap the advantages thereof. He's a hardworking student and top football player and he wants to go to Annapolis. Oh by the way, when Hernandez meets Davison, she's forgotten to tell him that daddy is a Congressman.
Davison is a liberal sort so the racial thing doesn't terribly bother him. But he thinks Hernandez will screw himself up if he gets involved with Dunst. God knows she's doing a wonderful job of that in her family relationships.
This was to be a big breakout role for Hernandez who was fresh from the TNBC morning show Hang Time. If he hasn't had quite the career a lot including myself expected of him, not the fault of this film because he and Dunst are a very attractive couple. Crazy/Beautiful is a sensitive and caring drama, a good film for the younger audience.
Hernandez is her total opposite. He's doing a two hour commute to her 90210 type high school he can reap the advantages thereof. He's a hardworking student and top football player and he wants to go to Annapolis. Oh by the way, when Hernandez meets Davison, she's forgotten to tell him that daddy is a Congressman.
Davison is a liberal sort so the racial thing doesn't terribly bother him. But he thinks Hernandez will screw himself up if he gets involved with Dunst. God knows she's doing a wonderful job of that in her family relationships.
This was to be a big breakout role for Hernandez who was fresh from the TNBC morning show Hang Time. If he hasn't had quite the career a lot including myself expected of him, not the fault of this film because he and Dunst are a very attractive couple. Crazy/Beautiful is a sensitive and caring drama, a good film for the younger audience.
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- Jul 31, 2009
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- About 17
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- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,937,988
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,715,060
- Jul 1, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $19,937,988
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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