Mad Love (1995)

Hard to buy this as a love story when Matt is in love with crazy. He doesn't love her. Doesn't know who she really even is. All he knows is her crazy behavior. Showing his happy memories of her at the end is silly. Her actions and feelings weren't real. Oh, and this is not Depressive or Bipolar behavior and I'm bipolar. You don't talk to yourself like you're autistic (in the car as she's driving). Scene in the hotel room is not bipolar either. In any case she's out of her mind and not sure how anyone could want to be with that. Hard to buy but character was a kid so I'll give it a pass. I liked the actors a lot. Plot could have been better.

I love Drew Barrymore and I've never seen her look more desirable than in this movie. She has short blonde hair and a beautiful smile.Drew is a chick with some kind of mental problem. She soon meets Chris O'Donnell, who decides it would be a good idea to shirk all responsibility to his family in favor of kidnapping Drew and hitting the road as a fugitive. Chris is so dumb, he doesn't leave Seattle for Canada, which is only a few miles north. No, Chris is smarter than that. He heads for Mexico! What a dweeb.The unlikely duo stumbles into a restaurant in Salinas (California) where Drew misses out on the shrimp she ordered so she can go to the toilet, take off the ugly dress Chris bought for her, and crawl around on the floor while checking for a secret door behind the commode. These adventures continue for awhile until Drew comes to her senses and dumps O'Dumbbell.OK for teenyboppers. Others may be bored out of their freaking minds.

I can't fathom why so many people have called this a "romantic comedy". It is in no way a comedy and while there is a romance that carries along with it, the plot isn't about the romance. It's about mental illness and how it affects the person and those around them.It felt like the ending as intended was when the doors closed behind Drew's character as she entered the hospital. The narrated ending seems tacked on, probably had too many people at the screenings that didn't care for whatever was the original ending. The studio perhaps felt pressure to make it a bit more upbeat and hopeful. I didn't mind an upbeat ending too much though, I'm generally a sucker for "Hollywood" endings. Plus it didn't seem to take away anything from her suffering. She's doing better with the help of doctors, not magically cured.As for Chris O'Donnell's performance, I thought it was fine. He didn't stand out and I don't think he was supposed to. His character was supposed to be a bit shy and geeky. This was obvious from the scenes leading up to him talking to Drew's character.As a disclaimer I like Drew Barrymore in everything I've seen her in, not necessarily the movie, but her performance at least. This has to be not only one of her best performances but one of the best performances in a film period. Yes, a lot of people would disagree with me but for anyone who has known someone suffering from depression and especially bi-polar disorder I think they'd agree she portrayed it amazingly well.

Even though my comment might not be like everyone else, this comment of mine is purely justify. I just not, not like this movie, I Hate it. It is my most pointless movie I have ever seen. A high school couple run away from home after her parents put her into the mental hospital for clinical depression and trying to commit suicide.Sorry to say but the movie suck big time. It have no plod (at all), it took over one third (or more) before they start run away and even on the road trip, it is damn boring. I see no chemistry between the two characters and the acting is dragging on and on. And the worst is definitely the ending, it seem the writer is tired of writing so that it, he put it to an end. Reason To Watch: 1. Drew look great.Reason Not To: 1. The movie has nothing (I really meant it). 2. Every thing about the movie is slow. 3. It simply suck. 4. One of the worst pointless movie, I have ever see.------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ------ ------ ------ ------- ------ --Rating: 2/10 (Grade: F)