Like Crazy Trailer Debuts

[NOTE: According to Erik Davis (Fandango, Movies.com), we’ll be seeing a new version of this trailer tomorrow, with the sound remixed for better balance. UPDATE 2: check after the cut for an alternate mix that might sound a little better.]

EW’s Anthony Breznican lays it on the line for Like Crazy, a youthful love story along the lines of (they hope) 500 Days of Summer and Once.  Says Breznican:

One big problem with Hollywood “true-love” stories is there’s often very little “truth” in them.

Then along comes a movie like Like Crazy — an indie, not a studio picture — where the relationship is allowed to be so real, so subtle, and so heartfelt that it almost feels voyeuristic. Like a love note you find, and probably shouldn’t read, but …

That was the experience many had watching writer-director Drake Doremus’ film at Sundance this year, about two star-crossed lovers (Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones) who fall intensely for each other in college only to find themselves separated by a continent and an ocean, but bound — hopefully — by something stronger.

When the movie’s first screening at Sundance ended, there weren’t just a lot of tear-streaked faces, but a lot of thumbs texting loved ones from afar. “This guy came up to me right after and he just broke down and said he’d just talked to the ex-girlfriend he hadn’t spoken to in five years, just there, there in the audience,” Doremus recalls. “He said, ‘The movie inspired me to act on something I’ve been feeling and thinking for many years.’ I was blown away.”