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The Crush (1993)

★ 6.6 · 544 ratings on TMDB

He thought it was just a crush. He was dead wrong.

The Crush poster★ 6.6

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

DirectorAlan Shapiro
CastAlicia Silverstone, Amber Benson, Andrew Airlie, Beverley Elliott, Cary Elwes, Deborah Hancock
GenresDrama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Crush keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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