Taglines: What Adrian wants, Adrian gets.
The Crush movie synopsis. Nick Eliot is looking for a new place to live. He works in advertisement/research, and needs to live in a place that is peaceful, with little noise. He finds a backhouse that is owned by Cliff and Liv Forrester. He also meets their daughter, Darian Forrester, who is 14, has only 1 friend (Cheyenne) and desperately wants an older man. Nick gets a new job and meets Amy Maddik and brings her home for a party. Darian doesn’t like this, and will do ANYTHING to keep Nick’s attention on HER, instead of Amy.
The Crush is a 1993 American erotic thriller film written and directed by Alan Shapiro, which stars Cary Elwes as Nick Eliot and Alicia Silverstone as Adrian Forrester, in her feature film debut. It was filmed on location from September 24 to November 20, 1992, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About the Story
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 Forrester’s 14-year-old 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 review from his editor/boss, 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 Adrian’s 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 Adrian’s actions become destructive. She defaces a car he’s restored and erases his computer discs, yet he’s unable to convince Cliff and Liv of what’s going on. Cheyenne (Amber Benson), a friend of Adrian’s 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 Amy, she locks Amy in her darkroom and empties a wasps’ nest into the vents, knowing of Amy’s spheksophobia. 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 Nick’s trash, leading to his arrest.
After Michael bails him out (and suspends him until trial), 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 informs Nick of a diary Adrian kept that can exonerate him.
When Cheyenne leaves, Nick goes looking for her when he hears strange noises from the Forrester’s house. He discovers Cheyenne bound and gagged in the attic on the carousel, and is confronted by Adrian and then an amazed Cliff, who attacks him thinking he is the enemy. Adrian, while still infatuated, knocks her father unconscious, leaving Nick free to subdue her with one punch, knocking her out cold and freeing Cheyenne. Acquitted, Nick goes to live with Amy while Adrian, confined to a psychiatric hospital, wishes to express her remorse for what she has done to Nick. Her doctor comments that she is making good progress, unaware she is developing a crush on him now.
The Crush (1993)
Directed by: Alan Shapiro
Starring: Cary Elwes, Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith, Amber Benson, Gwynyth Walsh, Matthew Walker, Beverley Elliott, Deborah Hancock, Andrew Airlie, Sheila Paterson
Screenplay by: Alan Shapiro
Production Design by: Michael S. Bolton
Cinematography by: Bruce Surtees
Film Editing by: Ian Crafford
Costume Design by: Sharon Purdy
Set Decoration by: Paul Joyal
Art Direction by: Eric Fraser
Music by: Graeme Revell
MPAA Rating: R.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: April 2, 1993
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