The Crush (1993 film)
The Crush is a 1993 American thriller film written and directed by Alan Shapiro, which stars Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone in her feature film debut. It was filmed on location fromSeptember 1992 November 1992 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Arriving in Seattle, Washington, writer Nick Eliot Cary Elwes secures a job at Pique magazine and lodging in a guest house belonging to Cliff and Liv Forrester Kurtwood Smith and Gwynyth Walsh. The handsome Nick soon makes the acquaintance of the Forresters 14yearold daughter Adrian Alicia Silverstone, a precocious girl who develops an intense attraction to him. She secretly helps Nick by sneaking into his room and rewriting one of his Pique stories, which subsequently wins a rave from his editorboss, Michael Matthew Walker. At a party thrown by the Forresters, Nick agrees to accompany the lonely girl on a nighttime drive to a romantic spot, where she kisses him.This intensifies Adrians crush on Nick, but he quickly wises up and attempts to put her off, having begun a budding romance with coworker Amy Jennifer Rubin. Adrian continues to boldly pursue him, even going so far as to undress in his view while he is hiding in her closet. Nick, however, continues to rebuff her advances, and Adrians actions become destructive. She defaces a car hes restored and erases his computer discs, yet hes unable to convince Cliff and Liv of whats going on. Cheyenne Amber Benson, a friend of Adrian who tries to warn Nick about her, meets with an accident at the riding school they attend together. After Adrian spies on Nick in bed with a friend Amy, she locks Amy in her darkroom and empties a wasps nest into the vents. Amy survives, and Nick, now convinced that Adrian is big trouble, attempts to find new lodging. However, Adrian manages to sabotage his efforts. She accuses him of sexually assaulting her with evidence obtained from a used condom from Nicks trash, leading to his arrest. After Michael bails him out and fires him, Nick is met once again by Cheyenne. She informs Nick that she knows he did not do anything to Adrian, and that Adrian had behaved like this before to a previous crush, a camp counselor named Rick who accidentally died by eating something poisonous. Cheyenne also
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