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Mad Love


     
  Mad Love Review
Tookey's Rating
3 /10
 
Average Rating
3.25 /10
 
Starring
Matt .............. Chris O'Donnell, Casey ............. Drew Barrymore, Eric .............. Matthew Lillard
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Directed by: Antonia Bird
Written by: Paula Milne

 
 
 
Released: 1995
   
Genre: DRAMA
ROMANCE
   
Origin: US
   
Length: 96
 
 


 
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"Not the first story about two teen-agers who fall in love against their parents' wishes. Romeo and Juliet wasn't even the first. And it's not the first movie about two troubled kids who hit the road in an attempt to run away to their dreams. But it's the first one in a while that turns realistic, and shows one of the kids trying to react responsibly when the situation gets out of hand. That makes it more interesting, because it's about real problems, not movie problems... Mad Love has a few glitches - I thought Casey's father was written and played too broadly - and it might have found a way around that ancient movie belief that patients can only be cured by being yanked out of the hospital. But the movie deals seriously with mental illness, and also with that overwhelming mental and physical condition known as being a teen-ager in love."
(Roger Ebert)

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