CRUSH

Year: 2001
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Film Four
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, Bill Paterson, Caroline Holdaway, Joe Roberts, Josh Cole, Gary Powell, Christian Burgess, Carlton Jarvis, Timothy Walker
Director: John McKay
Country: UK
USA & UK: 112 mins
USA Rated: R for sexuality and language
UK Certificate: 15 contains some strong language and moderate sex references
USA Release Date: 5 April 2002 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)
UK Release Date: 7 June 2002 (Limited Release - London)


Synopsis

A comedy about what happens when good sex, bad behaviour and a sexy younger man test three women's friendship.

Kate (Andie MacDowell) is headmistress in a girls' school in a small English town: forty years old, successful and respectable, and on her own. Every Monday, she gets together with her other single successful friends, Molly (Anna Chancellor) and Janine (Imelda Staunton) where they drink gin, eat chocolate and decide who is the 'Saddest of the Week'.

Everything changes when Kate meets an ex-pupil, Jed (Kenny Doughty) who though only 25 she falls for him and has sex with him. What does she tell her friends?