THE CRUSH

THE CRUSH-

Was part of the "Stalking"- trend that took place in the early 90's, following success like "The hand that rocks the cradle", "Fatal attraction", "Single white female" and others. Alicia Silverstone plays chubby lonely teenager; Darian Forrester, her rich parents rents out the room over their garage to this geek Nick Eliot played by Cary Elwes. Darian falls in love with Cary, except Cary has a new girlfriend, so what does Darian do? Just like any other 14 year old, she tortures Nick and threaten to kills his girlfriend.
Some pretty lame moments but seeing this dumb yuppie getting harassed by a 14 year old has some good belly laughs, things like leaving him hundreds of voice mails, setting up traps throughout the house and so on is pretty hilarious. Except this little monster doesn't get what she deserves in the end.

Unlike the scene in "Hand that rocks the cradle" when Payten (Rebecca De Mornay) the psychotic killer, gets thrown out the window of the attic, not only she plundges to her death, but she lands on and through the spikes of a white picket fence! That's great! The audience kind of expect a truck to drive over her just to make sure she's dead...

Anyhow "The crush" has a dumb typical ending, we see Darian is now recovered at a psycho ward, she tells her doctor a young good looking intern, that she feel she is making progress and is feeling better everyday with his help. So what does the idiot doctor do? He says "Oh I know you will, I believe in you!' and gives her an encouraging smile.

The very last shot is Darian sitting in her padded cell looking at the picture of her young psychologist with a big smile!