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There are some nice observations here (nice? damned by faint praise, I’d say) about growing pains and yearning to be part of the crowd with the good looking guy or gal on your arm, but really it’s been done so much more expertly before in well observed commentaries on relationships like ... Read review
Drive Me Crazyis a teenage romantic comedy occupying the same fictional US universe ... more
asDawson's Creekand so many others to follow in the hit show's wake. Rich and model-beautiful youths populate the halls spitting sarcasm and jargon at one another, and ...
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Drive Me Crazyis a teenage romantic comedy occupying the same fictional US universe ... more
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Opposites attract with irresistible force in this fresh, funny, feel-good comedy about two ... more
mismatched teens who scheme to make their ex's jealous. Melissa Joan Hart (TV's Sabrina The Teenage Witch) is 'picture perfect' (CBS-TV, Fort Worth) as a peppy p...
Nicole (Hart) and Chase (Grenier) live next door to each other - and that's about all they ... more
have in common. Nicole is up on the latest fashions; Chase on the latest protest. She wouldn't miss a high school rally or basketball game; he can usually be fo...
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The co-editors of The Hell With Love and Kiss Off apply their trademark wit and humor to a ... more
collection designed to help readers rekindle relationships, brush off the inertia of everyday life, or otherwise celebrate romantic love, in a volume that includes pieces by such writers as Louise Gluck and Pablo Neruda. Original.
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The last place Anna Terry expects to fall in love is in the waiting room of her divorce ... more
lawyer's office. But that's where she meets Nick Diamond and Cupid's arrow strikes. If only they were in the mood! Anna's had more than her fair share of heartache. Her first marriage ended before her pregnancy was over and her second husband has disappeared leaving her with a two-year-old son a pre-pubescent daughter and not a penny to her name. Nick's luck hasn't been any better: his wife has run off with the local butcher - which wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't a vegetarian! His second-hand car dealership is in chaos and his mother is sure that line-dancing will mend his 'Achy Breaky Heart'. When Anna gets a job as Nick's secretary what starts as a mild flirtation soon accelerates into overdrive -- but that's before their ex-partners show up and they're all in for a bumpy ride.
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Comedy - Director: Tony Dow - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: John Challis, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tessa Peake-Jones, Gwyneth Strong
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
...relationships like American Beauty and Drive Me Crazy never seeks to poke its greasy haired head even an inch above the parapet of emotions.
That it has no pretensions to high art or statements is probably to its eternal credit, but that doesn’t mean to say that it really benefits from the stance. I mean, all it does is prevent the people responsible looking totally stoopid.
You get all the standard cliches, like the ... ...for a night lacking in anything happening ... sorry but that’s about all I can say in favour of Drive Me Crazy, and even that’s a pretty shallow line because you never get much more than the odd bit of neck and one shot of Hart’s unbulging cleavage.
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American High School Big Fun with Melissa Joan Hart, she of the immense Sabrina the Teenage Witch kids’ TV series ...
It almost makes you cringe just to read the words, I guess, because although Hart is good looking and cutesy pie cool enough to carry the twenty minutes or so on the small screen, this is big cinema and the full 90 minute Monty. It’s stretching things just a mite too much to expect her to be able to pull this one off, especially when she’s having to carry the burden of one of the most reprehensible of movie genres - the High School light comedy, made popular by Porky’s, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Pie and the like.
Well unfortunately just about your worst fears come effortlessly to solid life her and I was well dischuffed with the whole highly unpleasant experience some ten minutes or so into it, and from then on it’s just a mild irritant as you potter about cooking the sausages and brewing the tea, because that’s the most exciting thing that you’re going to experience for the next hour and a half.
Teen love and lust is always bubbling under the surface in these things, together with all the adolescent angst, anxiety and rebellion that’s pretty obligatory with this kind of movie. Now for oldies like us it’s too far removed from our real life experience to be anything other than unfathomably awful, while no matter how hard they try these films are always very patronising for the actors’ contemporaries.
In case, you’re not keeping up with my racy style and grace, I DON’T MUCH CARE FOR THIS MOVIE, or any films like this. Of course, there is the odd exception and in its day Porky’s was a pretty fair achievement, but by and large these films suck, but BIG TIME.
There are some nice observations here (nice? damned by faint praise, I’d say) about growing pains and yearning to be part of the crowd with the good looking guy or gal on your arm, but really it’s been done so much more expertly before in well observed commentaries on relationships like American Beauty and Drive Me Crazy never seeks to poke its greasy haired head even an inch above the parapet of emotions.
That it has no pretensions to high art or statements is probably to its eternal credit, but that doesn’t mean to say that it really benefits from the stance. I mean, all it does is prevent the people responsible looking totally stoopid.
You get all the standard cliches, like the school prom, girls fighting over guys, guys fighting over girls and false pride, generation gap politics, divorced parents, cute sports majors and very hot teen girls, but it’s very much a case of teen angst by numbers and quite frankly I need those perfect teeth and grungey fashion statements about as much as the sight of Man U starting to climb back up the Premiership table, i.e. not very much (in case you were wondering).
This film is irritating, annoying, dull, exceedingly boring, unimaginative and not the slightest bit cool or sexy. Hart is too young and shallow to matter on such a stage at this particular point in time, although I’m confident that one day she will storm far beyond the oh so cosy challenge of the Teenage Witch role. However, that day’s a far bit off as yet and for now she’s a run of the mill teen actress in a very run of the mill and unoriginal High School movie.
What I actually find myself wondering, however, is whether life in the States is actually like it’s portrayed here - it all feels so retro and 50’s, like a replayed version of Grease with the skin tight black pants traded in for the baggy and the grunge, but with little else of any real note showing much development, although we actually cop Hart at one obscure moment trying to solve quadratic equations - I bet you’ve never seen that one before.
Alternatively all that young female flesh is pretty good to look at and at least compensates for a night lacking in anything happening ... sorry but that’s about all I can say in favour of Drive Me Crazy, and even that’s a pretty shallow line because you never get much more than the odd bit of neck and one shot of Hart’s unbulging cleavage.
Advantages: lighthearted teen flick, nice ending Disadvantages: Not earth moving
Once upon a time when I got my first flat, I watched a program from the start, that program was ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’. I felt from that point on that Melissa Joan Hart was really good. I just liked her style, the way she was and found it really odd that she was the same age as me playing a girl at school; guess I’m not the only one who can pass for younger than what she is? After that, when ever I saw a film that she was in, I was interested ... ...‘Drive me Crazy’. Enjoy, M xxx
What’s the film about?
It’s about a girl called Nicole and a guy named Chase who couldn’t be more opposite and live next door to each other. Nicole is popular, in the ‘in’ crowd and is known by everyone. She is smart, beautiful and looking to get asked the senior dance by the head of the basketball team. All looks like it is going to plan till Brad (Our basketball dude) falls for another girl and poor Nicole ...
Miss_BooBookitty 14.05.2003
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Advantages: Melissa Joan Hart ~ Sabrina! Disadvantages: Bad acting, storyline and performance
...Featuring Briteny Spears single, 'You Drive Me Crazy' the combination of pop music used is c**p. Hence, Briteny Spears single was the title of the film, Melissa Joan Hart also stars in the video of the track too.
Many people have compared Melissa's role of Nicole to Cher from Clueless, again another US teen romance, chic flic film! This film is no where as near as good as that one though!
Finally, I'll conclude with 'This Film Drives Me Crazy'. ... ...nice girly night in, although you may want this one, I say don't bother, there are many others available and as for buying it, don't even go there! The only positive thing about the whole film is the appearance of Sabrina! ~ Who I hope to see in films in the future! Thanks for reading. ~M~ ...
emu128 14.08.2001
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Advantages: um.... Disadvantages: where do I start?
...film, just don't. Oh and yeah, the ending is predictable, but as you're not going to watch it, that shouldn't matter!
This movie's main selling point was that Britney Spears' 'You Drive Me Crazy' was the theme tune. That should tell you just about all you need to know... ...
BennyRialto 18.03.2001
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Advantages: great if you like this kind of film Disadvantages: slow at times
...become one of my favourites. Drive Me Crazy is no exception.
I would say one thing of this film, and that is it gets better the more times you watch it. The first time you see it you'll think "god, not another teen movie". But re-watch it and you'll notice witty one-liners and stupid things that make it that bit special. There are so many teen movies now they all blur into one, but this has a more 'edgy' style, mainly down to the clever casting ... ...good Brit-pop and rock going on too). There'd be no prizes won for originality (and definitely not for costume design) but at least the characters in this aren't clean-cut perfect little preppy american kids that you know wouldn't exist in real life. These teenagers get drunk, act like idiots, only care about one thing and stab each other in the back at regular intervals. So many of these American films are so far-fetched because everyone's so rich ...
PrincessGem 15.03.2003
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Advantages: Good light entertainment Disadvantages: Predictable from the beginning
This film is about two next door neighbours: Chase and Nicole, who used to be good friends but have eventually grown apart. They are both madly in love with differnt partners, who are frankly not interested in them. So they decide to go out with each other in order to make their crushes jealous and hopefully be begging to go out with them. This is quite a typical American film based in High School with an High School Prom at the end. I must admit ...
Lowey 25.07.2000
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Neighbours Nicole and Chase have virtually nothing in common except that they have recently been jilted. Together they hatch a plot to get what they want...
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"...[An] amiable, sensible style..." (New York Times, p.E18, 01/10/1999)
DVD Description
Another entry into Hollywood's late-1990s onslaught of romantic comedies set in high school, starring Hart as Nicole Maris, an attractive, well-liked student who is on the organizing committee for her school's upcoming Centennial Celebration. Grenier is Chase Hammond, Nicole's next-door neighbor and ex-buddy. Realizing that they might be dateless for such an important event - this is high school, remember - they decide to team up and convince everyone that they're dating, creating a burning jealousy that will most certainly send their real objects of desire running back to them with open arms.
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