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...more and more, is keeping its distance from youth-oriented flicks unless they are of the action-adventure variety, with plenty of noise to drown out the script. Perhaps that is part of the reason Hollywood is trying to improve on the genre with Crazy/Beautiful--a romantic drama starring Kirsten Dunst as a rich, white high school senior rebelling against her limousine-liberal father and falling in love with a Latino jock from the wrong side of the tracks. No one eats anything disgusting, and nothing blows up in this refreshingly straightforward tale of adolescent angst and sexual awakening. Of course...
Crazy/Beautiful's most powerful appeal to teens, however, is likely to be the real erotic charge between Dunst--a promising 19-year-old actress--and newcomer co-star Jay Hernandez. Their moving, brown-and-white romance (sex scenes have been trimmed but not omitted) could end up being a shrewd come-on for the target audience. Last spring teenagers turned out in force for Save the Last Dance, another PG-13 interracial love story from MTV Films and one of the few flicks to score with that demographic at the box office this year. "The young audience is much more...
...movie's secret weapon is Dunst herself, who went for the role of Crazy/Beautiful's bad girl because "I was so ready to play a part like that. I don't want people to just see me as the cute, sweet girl." She needn't worry. Although her biggest success so far came last year as the chirpy cheerleader in the surprise high school hit Bring It On, Dunst (known as Kiki to friends and family) has shown impressive range in a career that began with a Kix cereal commercial at age 3 and spans three dozen movie...
...Dunst's youthful fan base and cool cache landed her a role as co-host (alongside Saturday Night Live's Jimmy Fallon) of this year's MTV Movie Awards, but like her fans, she has grown tired of the high school genre. "I'm over doing those kinds of movies," says Dunst, who graduated last year. She campaigned diligently--and successfully--for the role of Tobey Maguire's love interest in Sony's upcoming big-budget, highly anticipated Spider-Man. Despite reports that she is also Maguire's leading lady offscreen, both say they are just friends. And she recently...
...Replace with: The Virgin Suicides Sofia Coppola's underrated directorial debut is a gleaming golden fairy tale of its own, complete with sleeping beauties, prince charming and indefatigable optimism. Kirsten Dunst is lovely as a rebellious daughter in a suffocatingly close-knit suburban family...