Mad Love is a 1995 romantic drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore and Matthew Lillard. The screenplay was written by Paula Milne. The original music score is composed by Andy Roberts. Straight-laced Matt Leland falls in love with Casey Roberts , the new girl in school from Chicago. After he helps her escape from an acute psychiatric ward, they run away as they both deal with her severe mental illness Casey is eccentric in nature. Her carefree attitude is attributed to a part of her illness, in which she can experience severe highs and lows of... emotion. It is from this truth much of the film's central appeal and plot are based upon, in that her mutual love and joy can be so extreme yet dangerously flawed. Heading toward Mexico, Casey begins to experience symptoms of depression again. Matt, trying to help her, becomes scared. After she threatens suicide, and also threatens to kill him, they return to Seattle and their families, where she agrees to start taking medication. Variety published a mixed review by critic Emanuel Levy.
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| Release date: | May 26, 1995 |
| Directed by: | Antonia Bird |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Producer: | David Manson, Steve Golin |
| Music by: | Andy Roberts |
| Screenplay by: | Paula Milne |