Is Like Crazy a truly romantic film? We mean real romance, minus the Hollyood shmaltz? According to Sundance Film Festival jurors it is - they awarded the movie the coveted Grand Jury Prize.
Bittersweet and deeply personal, Like Crazy tells the story of Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones), a pair of Los Angeles college students who fall immediately and intensely in love. Ignoring the expiry of her student visa, Anna stays in the country for the summer. What follows is struggles the couple must endure as they try to keep their passion alive, despite the bureaucratic hurdles of US immigration policy, the months they must spend apart and the temptations of more geographically desirable prospects.