Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Sally Warner I loved the movie. Beautifully shot with wonderful scenery in great British understatement that resorts to American overdone drama a couple of times. However mostly an engrossing and very English story with a great mix of pathos and stand back watching.I love the wonderful English houses, churches and a crematorium add to the scenery. Who would have thought funerals could be so much fun.A good story with the young male lead portrayed as a functioning adult with wistful teenage angst. Some great hard-hitting one-liners as an English movie at its best should be and a couple of interesting twists.Remember your tissues:-)

gradyharp CRUSH is now a ten year old film written and directed by John McKay, a film that stands up well with the passage of time and the observations of feminine behavior. It is blessed with a fine cast of actors and has the courage to take a comedic start and turn it into a tragic mode without destroying the main theme of the special friendship among a small group of women. Kate Scales (Andie MacDowell) is a headmistress of a private school in a smallish English town and is close friends with policewoman Janine (Imelda Staunton) and physician Molly Cartwright (Anna Chancellor): each of the women is in the 40s range of age and each is single, their social life is meeting together for booze, smoking, and gossip and competing by putting themselves down for having the worst faux pas with men. Kate encounters a young former student of hers, Jed Willis (Kenny Doughty) as he plays the organ for funerals. There is a mutual attraction and soon they are having a frequent physical relationship. Jed is sincerely in love with Kate but Kate feels the 20 some odd year difference in their ages in an insurmountable gap - though she is passionately attracted to Jeb. When Kate shares her 'affair' with Molly and Janine her friends are appalled and set out to destroy a relationship they feel is completely wrong and doomed to failure. Molly and Janine take extreme measures to see to it that the couple is broken up and their intentions result in a tragedy they all must face. The repercussions of this behavior creates a whole new set of circumstances and despite the tragic elements the friends are able to reunite by film's end - with very clear discoveries about each other and changes in each of their lives. There is a lot of well written and well delivered humor in the first half of the film with the trio of women creating a bond that seems to be ceaselessly entertaining. The introduction of Jed - played to perfection by the very talented Kenny Doughty - changes the theme of the story and while many viewers will feel negative about the turn of events there is here a chance for the examination of the spectrum of friendship that is solidly written and performed. What seems to be a bit of fluff movie develops into a psychological study that makes it stand above many other 'chick flick' comedies. Grady Harp

Roedy Green Kenny Doughty as Jed Willis is sexier in this role than any male porn star, even though he keeps his pants on.The movie tore at my heart reminding me of the intensity of the big explosive love of my life. I don't think I can think of another movie, except perhaps Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet that captures that giddy joy that well.The other draw of the movie is the very English eccentric characters enjoying the scandal vicariously. In that sense it is much the same appeal as Midsomer Murder or a Miss Marple mystery, without the mayhem.This is a great antidote to the mock horror currently popular in the USA an any relationships between people of different ages.

Paula Kaye It's a pretty decent film, all told! I actually stumbled across it one afternoon. Clicked on the Blurb that Comcast had for it and They claimed it was the Cary Elwes version! LOL! Anyway. I Do agree with David from San Francisco about one thing. Anne Chancellor plays a character I'd gladly nuke if I could. Absolutely evil. Her role as Molly Cartwright seems to relish destroying happiness at every turn, simply because her "personal views" are so cynically skewed... Her "gay" ex-husband turns up at a party with his New Wife, (a Female! Gads!), And, their two naturally borne children! Add to this, her "other" two Ex's and Their 'trophy wives" (who seem to have been sorority sisters!), and you Almost feel sorry for her when she douses herself with her wine! Out of shock and embarrassment at having not only her three ex's at the same party she's attending, but, also their "happy families" in tow, she's "exposed" as "being in attendance" when she yelps at the event of spilling her wine. Out of embarrassment for "being alone", she grabs the nearest person, (a woman!), and starts Kissing her. Thankfully for her, the woman Responds in kind - and once the "first kiss" is past, the "stranger" goes in for another one - which is how Molly "learns" she's "BI"! Geez! Whatever! And, Andie's character lives 'happily" ever after.. It's not nearly as bad as you would think though... Sort of a "Four Weddings and a Funeral - Part 2" - only without Hugh What's-His-Name and the fact that the "hot hunky guy/stud" is Way younger than Andie's character and the fact that she goes from "Uptight HeadMistress of a Posh School" to "Slut/Tramp/Slapper" in a filmed "nano-second"; with this "other guy"... Really - it's Not as bad as you think - and - no - it's not Worse... It's just - different from what you'd expect it to be. But, I Have to Say - when Imelda's Staunton's character saves Andie's character from making a Matrimonial Mistake the size of a Mushroom Cloud, (aided by a Lot of Studly Young Policemen! Yum! LOL!), all I really wanted to do was tap Ms. Staunton's shoulder and ask, "So- you can make them charge into a room like that Anytime you want to?" It Really did have it's redeeming qualities! (Double Coupon days at that!)