Crazy/Beautiful

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Crazy/Beautiful

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
Distributed by	Buena Vista 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 south Los Angeles (where Hernandez's character lives).

The storyline is of an out of control senator's daughter (Dunst) who meets up with a Latin-American straight-A student, 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. When Carlos comes to Nicole's house and they plan to have sex, Nicole leaves the bedroom in a cut off shirt and her underwear 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.