If you ask me - Crazy Love (from 2007) has got to be one of the most vile, demented and truly sickening "real-life" Romeo & Juliet stories ever told.Crazy Love was the kind of moronic "love" story that could only happen (where else, but) in America. This fast-food, tabloid-mentality documentary was about as American as is the grotesque reek of McDonalds' restaurants.I certainly view both Linda Riss and Burt Pugach as being nothing but a revolting pair of white-trash, publicity seekers who really-really-really deserved each other (till they both turned to rot in hell, wrapped in each other's cold, reptilian embrace).Riss and Pugach (and their nauseating "love" affair) were the ultimate in sickening garbage. And for them to gloat about it and re-tell all of the sordid, blow-by-blow details of this despicable "on-again/off-again" relationship (in this documentary) was like putting this thoroughly disgusted viewer through the hideous torture of "The Rack" for 90 solid minutes.

Directors Dan Klores & Fisher Stevens present a real head-scratcher, a documentary focusing on what is likely the most curious love affair since Edward VIII & Wallace Simpson. In the late 1950s, nebbish ambulance chasing lawyer/film producer(!) Burt Pugach spots Linda Riss on a NYC street corner and becomes immediately obsessed with her. What transpires over the next fifteen years is mind boggling. What goes on after that time is surrealistic. To say anything more would spoil an unbelievable viewing experience. Suffice to say, if the film were fiction, it would most appropriately be directed by either David Lynch or even the great Federico Fellini. CRAZY LOVE is grotesque, cringe-inducing, funny, horrifying, and more...a real emotional roller-coaster. There are appearances by Jimmy Breslin, William Kuntsler, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin, several friends of both Pugach and Riss as well as Pugach's first wife Francine.

"Crazy Love" again shows us just how compelling real people and situations can be when compared to their fictional counterparts. The screenwriter has not yet been born who could come up with such a detailed, character-rich, period-to-present story. Simply outrageous, you can smell the ink of the old New York tabloids wafting from the screen. This film is endlessly entertaining, fascinating, scary, funny, familiar, confusing and confounding. I think that New Yorkers will find the film and it's tone particularly interesting. The stock footage and stills are outdone only by the amazing Bronx/Brooklyn-ese accents whining from this quirky but genuine group. Think of it, single scandalous crime whose layers have been evolving and unfolding for 50 years now. A must see!

Now I thought the subject of this documentary was very interesting, but the overall documentary just wasn't all that interesting. Now how they screwed it up and made it quite boring, I don't know. It's funny that these two somehow ended up married even though he blinded her and went to jail for that crime, and makes you realize that often times love does indeed conquer all! I really wanted to like this, but it just wasn't very good. I'm not sure if it was the way it was presented or what it was that just didn't make it quite work. I would only recommend this documentary to those that love documentaries. Personally I don't think this is worth having a DVD release and would have been better off as a CourtTV special or something. It's simply not that good.