Crazy/Beautiful
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| Directed by | John Stockwell |
| Produced by | Rachel Pfeffer Harry J. Ufland Mary Jane Ufland |
| Written by | Phil Hay Matt Manfredi |
| Starring | Kirsten Dunst Jay Hernandez Bruce Davison Taryn Manning |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 29, 2001 |
| Running time | 99 min. 135 min. (director's cut) |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14,000,000 USD (est.) |
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Crazy/Beautiful is a 2001 movie starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez. It is largely set at Palisades Charter High School and the surrounding area, including downtown Pacific Palisades, Malibu (where Dunst's character lives), and East Los Angeles (where Hernandez's character lives).
The story is that of a rich, out-of-control congressman's daughter (Dunst) who meets up with a working class Mexican-American straight-A student (Hernandez), resulting in a clash of cultures, values and a love affair.
Crazy/Beautiful is a deeper account of a traditional American 'teen movie' in the way in which it intelligently subverts the traditional racial and social class stereotypes of the main characters.
Although the film initially came and went at the box office when it was released in the summer of 2001, Kirsten Dunst received generally positive reviews for her portrayal of the out of control rich girl.
Dunst's character Nicole was originally supposed to have a nude scene. In the scene in which Carlos comes to Nicole's house and they plan to have sex, Nicole leaves the bedroom in a cut off shirt and her panties and walks into the kitchen past the maid to retrieve some condoms, then returns to her bedroom. In the script she was supposed to do this completely nude. Dunst considered this, and went as far as to rehearse the scene totally nude on a closed set in front of only co-star Hernandez and director Stockwell, but decided not to go through with it on film.
The director's cut of the film was originally rumored to contain the above nude scene, but that ended up not being true. Director Stockwell maintains that he did not film Dunst while she was nude.
The movie also features Jay Hernandez's close friend Ruben Chacon as one of his friends in the beginning of the film.
The movie features several close up-shots of a General Motors EV1, a plug-in electric vehicle as the vehicle of Dunst's character's father, an ecologist. This is interesting[citation needed] since all EV1s were recovered from customers by General Motors (and most were destroyed by crushing) about a year prior to the release of the movie. (see: Who Killed the Electric Car?)
