It was released in theaters on Octoand grossed over $3.7 million at the box office. Like Crazy premiered on Januat the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the festival's Grand Jury Prize. Filming took place over four weeks in Los Angeles and London with a budget of $250,000. Rather than writing a traditional screenplay, he and Ben York Jones compiled a 50-page outline of the film from which the actors improvised almost all of the dialogue. Written by Doremus and Ben York Jones, the film tells the story of Anna ( Felicity Jones), a British exchange student who falls in love with an American student, Jacob ( Anton Yelchin), only to be separated from him when she is denied re-entry into the United States after staying in the country longer than her student visa allows.ĭoremus based the storyline of the film partly on his own long-distance relationship with a woman living in London while he lived in Los Angeles.

Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Drake Doremus and starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, and Jennifer Lawrence.

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