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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 29018
Released: January 18, 2000 |
| Our Price: $4.95 |
| Used Price: $3.51 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Chris O'Donnell (BATMAN FOREVER, THE BACHELOR) and the seductive Drew Barrymore (CHARLIE'S ANGELS, BOYS ON THE SIDE) fall hard in MAD LOVE -- the wild and sexy story of two passionate young people who take to the road for the incredible adventure of their lives! Straitlaced Matt (O'DONNELL) is immediately captivated by Casey (BARRYMORE), the beautiful and unpredictably rebellious new girl in town who refuses to play by the rules! But when they're faced with permanent separation, they decide to leave everything behind and run away together ... and run head-on into the kind of passion, fun, and excitement you won't soon forget!
Mad Love Reviews:
I've never seen the whole thing!!! 
2009-05-11 - I was an extra in this movie over a decade ago & that's the only reason I bought it. But I never seem to get past the two scenes I'm in. Which tells you how compelling this movie is. I love Drew and would just like to say she's as adorable and sweet in real life as she is on any screen. Two stars because the movie really does blow but I only spent a total of maybe $5. And $5 to have my 4 seconds of fame and all the memories of the Seattle Scene back in the 90's...priceless.
great movie. drews best one. 
2009-02-27 - it sounds kinda dry in the text but its a great movie. boy next door type almost sanitarily clean matt. his mothers dead and hes kind of taken on her role as a second parent to his little brother and little sister. the little brother has athsma and the kids are two little pestering younger siblings. very convincing. matt has a best friend (played by matthew lillard, man whatever happened to that guy) one day they see casey(drew barrymore) getting agrivated with her trunk and matt falls in love on the spot. hes very "white bread" and casey is not. she has a wildness about her which matt needs. matt has a innocence and stability about him that casey needs. after a fight with her parents which threatens to take her away from matt casey attempts suicide and is sent to a mental institution where matt busts her out. its a road film. casey got to know matt before the hospital and on the road matt learns that theres alot more to casey than he took to heart. casey is mentally ill (schitzophrenic, clinically depressed... i dunno) he loves her deeply but he knows that he doesnt have the knowledge to help her other than to love her (which he does unconditionally). its a spiral of events leading to a melt down basically. its a fun movie to watch. its not depressing though it is sad. the characters are so colorful and it is set in seatle during the grunge age (man i miss those days, and the music). if you love drew barrymore movies or chris o donnel (which i do in both cases) then get this movie. dont psycho analize it just get it. i never get tired of it and jump to the chase and get the soundtrack too because as soon as you watch the movie your just gonna order it too anyway. its a time capsule. great music for anyone who was a teenager in the grunge days.
Crazy Seattle Teens 
2006-04-15 - I'm not sure what I was expecting going in to see this movie for the first time, but I did not find it in "Mad Love." This movie reminds me of "Fear," partly because of its location and the age of its cast, and the two movies certainly have their parallel's, but there is no self-tattooing or killing of the family pet. Much more of cult hit then mainstream, Drew Barrymore carries this movie. You definately have to take the movie for what it is because the more you think about it the less plausible it becomes. This movie could go either way with its viewers, its just all about personal preference.
Casey is NOT clinically depressed.
2005-08-23 - This movie is cute, but not factual. I always worry when I see mental illnesses treated as interchangeable. Drew Barrymore's character Casey exhibits class bipolar symptoms, which include irrational thoughts, suicidal depression, and wild mood swings going from risk taking mania to the immobility of depression. I just wish they'ed been able to portray it for what it was. Of course making a movie about clinical depression symptoms wouldn't have involved the car stealing and drama. Just lots of Drew sitting in her room, unable to muster the energy to find Chris O'Donnell interesting. Not as good a movie, I suppose.
An underrated gem!
2005-07-22 - This film is about a high schooler named Matt (Chris O'Donnell) who has a crush on free spirited Casey (Drew Barrymore), so he finally gets the guts to ask her out, and they go to a punk rock concert together. They start to really like each other, and become boyfriend and girlfriend. One night, Matt sees Casey fighting with her parents, and she tells Matt that her father thinks Matt is a bad influence and that her father doesn't want Matt to see her anymore. Sooner or later, Matt hears that Casey has been put in the hospital, due to the fact that she tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills. Matt helps her escape, and the two lovebirds take a road trip against parental wishes. Along their way to Mexico, they encounter a sellsman who tries to hit on Casey, and Casey begins to experience depression episodes again. Matt learns that Casey is Bi-Polar, and he tries to comfort her the only way he knows how. He decides his only option is to get her help, so he decides to call her parents. She attempts to commit suicide again, telling Matt that she doesn't want to be sick anymore and that she doesn't want to be locked up. Matt talks her out of it, and they return home, so that Casey can recieve medical treatment. This film may or may not sound interesting, but it's a great film nevertheless. Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell give excellent performances. Recommended.
