Like Crazy

Like Crazy is a 2011 American drama film. The film was directed by Drake Doremus and stars Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. The film won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 27th Sundance Film Festival, and Jones won a Special Grand Jury Prize for acting in a dramatic film.. The film was acquired by Paramount Vantage and was released on October 28, 2011. Yelchin and Jones play Jacob and Anna, college students in Los Angeles who become a couple. Anna is a British exchange student in English who, having fallen in love with Jacob, a design student, spends the summer with him, overstaying her student visa after it had expired on graduation. She returns home to London for a family obligation, and when she flies back to Los Angeles as a tourist she is detained, denied entry, turned away, and sent back to England by Los Angeles airport immigration officials, throwing the couple into an awkward and strained long-distance relationship. Anna is banned from entering the United States for this prior violation of having overstayed her original visa. The deep love of the couple is strained by the distance and frustration of not being able to see each other except when Jacob can make the time away from his successful design business in Los Angeles to visit Anna in England. Anna's family in England hires an immigration lawyer to try to get the ban lifted and allow Anna to return to Jacob in the United States. However, after many legal appeals, the ban was not lifted. They continue to legally challenge the ban but the relationship of Anna and Jacob is compromised although their love remains genuine.