The Crush

About The Crush

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

Alan Shapiro's The Crush is a 1993 thriller film. Its themes are journalist, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, and erotic thriller.

Cary Elwes stars as Nick Eliot, Alicia Silverstone as Adrian Forrester, Jennifer Rubin as Amy Maddik, and Kurtwood Smith as Cliff Forrester. It runs 89 minutes and was released in April 1993.

The screenplay is by Alan Shapiro. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Cineverse Amazon Channel in the United States.

Poison Ivy, Hard Candy, and The Boy Next Door make useful companions to The Crush, all filed under obsessive love. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 582 votes and it carries a R rating.