16. The Crush
The Crush is Alicia Silverstone's first movie role. She stars as Adrienne, a 14 year old who becomes obsessed with Nick, a magazine writer renting her parents' guest house.
It's pretty standard thriller fare really. It's more or less Fatal Attraction for the teen set. Silverstone is surprisingly good here considering that she was only 15 when filming took place. Cary Elwes is the object of Silverstone's increasingly serious infatuation. He's alright here. Honestly, I'm not a big fan of his and this performance doesn't change my mind any. The movie hits is low points near the end where some of it just gets silly. Look up "Crush super punch" on YouTube for the perfect example. Proceed to laugh yourself silly at it like I did.
One bit of interesting trivia here is the name of Silverstone's character. Originally, her name was Darian. The theatrical, VHS and laserdisc releases all kept this intact. For future cable, television and DVD releases, the name was dubbed over to Adrienne. Apparently, the film's writer/director Alan Shapiro had an incident like this happen to him so he based the character on his real life antagonist. She sued to have her name removed and was successful. I'm not going to lie, it affects the dvd release quite a bit as you can see that the voiceovers were absolutely terrible and it wound up taking me out of the movie somewhat.
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