| XD First Love (A Little Thing Called Love) Crazy Little Thing Called Love |
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| Directed by | Puttipong Pormsaka Na-Sakonnakorn Wasin Pokpong |
| Produced by | Somsak Tejcharattanaprasert Panya Nirankol |
| Written by | Puttipong Pormsaka Na-Sakonnakorn Wasin Pokpong |
| Starring | Mario Maurer Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul Sudarat Budtporm Peerawat Herapath Pijitra Siriwerapan Acharanat Ariyaritwikol |
| Cinematography | Reungwit Ramasudh |
| Distributed by | Sahamongkol Film International Co. Ltd. Workpoint Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | August 12, 2010 (Thailand) |
| Running time | 118 min. |
| Country | Thailand |
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First Love (A Little Thing Called Love) (Thai: สิ่งเล็กเล็ก ที่เรียกว่า..รัก) (Sing leklek Tee reak wa... Rak), better known as Crazy Little Thing Called Love, is a 2010 Thai romantic comedy film and also a 2011 Asian sleeper hit film starring Mario Maurer and Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul.
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Nam lives with her sister and mother. She is Shone's junior and secretly loves him. Nam and her friends help her confess her love with the help of the book '9 recipes of love'. Meanwhile teacher Inn and teacher Orn are constantly competing with each other for the sport teacher. Nam plays snow white in the school drama, Snow white. Shone's childhood friend Top joins the school. He has an instant liking for her.Some days later Top confesses his love to Nam. She is shocked and does not answer. Next morning Top asks her to go to the football match to see Shone Play. She agrees to that idea. On an outing Shone finally confesses indirectly that he loves her , but is interrupted by Top. At the birthday night party of Ake ,Top and Shone share their story and say that they promise never to fall in love with the same girl. During a dance Top kisses Nam's cheek. That night Nam breaks up with him. Three years has passed by since the beginning of her story. Nam secures the first position in her exam. She would leave for USA to be with her dad. She finally confess to Shone. But is heart broken when she sees that Pin and Shone are together. That night Shone leaves his diary in front of her house. That diary contained all of Nam's photos. He always loved her but their time never matched. Shone leaves for Bangkok.
Nine years later, Nam is a successful costume designer and Shone has changed his profession to be a pro-photographer. In a reality show Nam and Shone are reunited.
Opening on Thailand's Queen's Birthday/Mother's Day holiday weekend of August 12–15, Crazy Little Thing Called Love (aka First Love) was in third place behind the slapstick monastic comedy Luangphee Teng 3 and Toy Story 3, but rose to second place the following weekend. At last count, First Love had earned around $2.6 million (70+ million baht), higher than expected.
Philippines
Televised on ABS-CBN, dubbed in Filipino(Tagalog) on June 5, 2011, and was replayed on June 20 and October 28. The movie re-aired on its movie cable network during the thanksgiving season due to viewers requests at 8pm.
China
Movie release in Shanghai for 2011 Shanghai International Film Festivals
The film got the good impression and positive reviews from critics and audiences, despite being filmed with an average budget. In Thailand, the film placed in 3rd place from its weekend gross in almost a hundred cinemas in Thailand, then an impressive up to 2nd place on the next weekend behind Kuan Mun Ho. The other two movies (including Toy Story 3) simultaneously released with First Love dropped to 3rd and 4th respectively. The film managed to maintain its position in 3rd place the following weekends and stayed inside the top 5 for six consecutive weeks. The film was shown in cinemas for nearly ten weeks (until October 2010) - making it one of the longest running movies in Thailand cinemas. In total, the film got an excellent gross of $2,659,443, becoming 8th highest gross movie of 2011 (beating Prince of Persia, The Chronicles of Narnia, Inception, Step Up 3-D, Alice in Wonderland, Tron Legacy), and the second highest grossing local produced film in Thailand.
By early 2011, copies of the film were uploaded on the Internet. Several countries got interested to get the rights to broadcast or release the film. Since then, some audiences got also a high interest to watch the film in their countries.
In the Philippines, the movie made a high impact to viewers after it was dubbed in Filipino and shown on free TV on June 5, 2011 on ABS-CBN, where it dominated the daytime viewership ratings,[1] both in Manila people ratings [2] and household ratings [3] and Nationwide ratings.[4] Just 2 weeks after it was first shown on free TV, on June 20, the film repeated in afternoon slot. The movie block time slot got the highest rating compare to its counterpart programs.[5]