There is a fine line between being a genius and being crazy,  so a popular saying goes. It is difficult to know whether Vincent Van Gogh, one of whose paintings is a key feature of my homepage design, became insane only later in life after contracting syphilis or whether the roots of his mental illness lie much earlier in his life and paved the way for his creative genius. Cleary, Van Gogh is an example of the proverb that opened this review.  At age 37 craziness fully took hold of him and he shot himself dead. When you take a look at his paintings you realize that, even if they depict something a bit crazy, they are beautiful. For the average mortal, however, craziness is generally not related to beauty but to ugliness and destruction. When we see someone act really crazy, we fear that the person will self-destruct sooner or later. This assumption is what the film Crazy Beautiful plays with.

A delinquent daughter of a congressman somewhere in California (Kirsten Dunst) is up to no good. Because being a bit crazy makes people stand out and breaks the monotony of everyday life she is able to get the attention of a typically responsible and career oriented over-achieving high school classmate (Jay Hernandez), who in contrast to her comes from a poor Mexican immigrant family. Before long he is on detention with her and his life seems to unravel in her hands. But in the end beauty saves the day and this film from being just another teenage first love film.