Crazy Love

Director: Dan Klores
USA 2007 96 mins
Language: English

This film is both riveting and fun whilst looking into the darkest parts of the human heart. The astonishing story of the obsessive roller coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach, which shocked the US during the summer of 1959.
Burt Pugach, a 32 year old married attorney and Linda Riss, a beautiful, single 20-year-old girl living in the Bronx, had a whirlwind romance. This culminated in a violent and psychologically complex set of actions that landed Burt in prison and stirred up an endless saga of news and magazine headlines. With the cooperation of Burt, now 80 and Linda, now 70, Klores examines the human psyche and the concepts of love, obsession, insanity, hope and forgiveness.

“A singular case of truth being stranger than fiction...packed with unexpected twists and astounding reversals...in tone and suspense ‘Crazy Love’ feels like a noir thriller. You could not make this stuff up.” LA Times.  Close Reviews

Event / Themes: Family Matters