MAD LOVE
A film review by Ben Hoffman
Copyright 1995 Ben Hoffman
The big shocker in MAD LOVE is not that it is so bad (which it is) but that it was directed by the same Antonia Bird who made the wonderful film PRIEST. How a talented director could sink so rapidly from one film to the next is difficult to comprehend. From the taut PRIEST to this nonsense is quite a leap.
Ever since I saw Chris O'Donnell in SCENT OF A WOMAN, I knew he was destined to greater roles. In MAD LOVE, it is not his acting that is at fault, it is the ridiculous story.
Matt (O'Donnell) is a bright high school senior who falls madly in love with a cookie young woman, Casey (Drew Barrymore). He is so madly in love with her that he gives up his intention of going to college and instead takes off with her for parts unknown.
When Casey steals a car and they ride off together he begins to have some small thoughts that she may not be right in the head. But other things should have warned him much earlier; he would have to have been an idiot not to have noticed. However it is not until almost the film's end that her parents tell him she needs psychiatric help and asylum confinement until she cane be "cured."
Too little, too late.
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Ben Hoffman
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