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Summary: Two redeeming qualities- perhaps three
Review: OK, so I saw this moive when it came out in theaters and I decided to rent it a month ago and re-see it. It was still as bad as I remember it being. There are only three redeeming qualities and that is stretching it. They are the use of Pachelbel's canon, Russell Crowe just being on the screen, and Russell Crowe singing "Waltzing Mathilda". It worth seeing once, but it is a slow moving film, the supporting characters are boring and cliched, and the plot is really quite weak.
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Summary: This was a nice delight!
Review: OK...this is not a truly great film but it is a different role for the wonderful Mr. Crowe and a delight to see him in this type of role.This is more a rental-sit-at-home-and-watch type of film but a delight nonetheless. It is a sweet love story between an air pilot and a woman whose husband is at war and lonely, not knowing when he is returning. She slowly develops a friendship turning into a relationship with Crowe. It is a nice and entertaining film and Crowe is wonderful in it. The actress, Christianne Hirt, is sweet but not much chemistry between them. but it will be worth it to hear Crowe sing "Waltzing Matilda" while bathing and just to hear the classic line..."I have come to take you to the seaside Madame." It is a sweet film that most would enjoy I believe.
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Summary: Poetic movie
Review: One may find this movie slow-going at first. Stay with it long enough, and you'll find the storyline and characters starting to develop. What touched me the most is the reality of wartime personal struggles depicted through the story of the characters in the movie. The story may be fictional, but the lives, thoughts, and the choices they had to make were real.
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Summary: Really 3 1/2***
Review: Opinions, here's mine. This is a foreign film, foreign as in they consider film an art form not an industry (thanks Sam Mendes) This is a story of another time, where the pace people lived at was different than now. That fact needs to be apparent from the beginning of the film. The Pachelbel Canon is a beautiful choice for flying music when you don't have a big budget. I liked these characters. I felt for their situations and understood how you could get there. Top of my list of scenes: Russell Crowe reciting "High Flight" it was done beautifully. I'd like to see and hear him do Shakespeare. One of the other reviewers said they felt the character of Lill was "wooden". Was she? Or was it her character trying to resist Lachlan? I felt like she knew, from the beginning, she could never give in totally to him . In just a few weeks he'd be gone, like her husband, who she had loved too. So, was she "wooden" or was she just saving a part of herself so she could survive sending these people she loved off to war? I did enjoy "Waltzing Matilda". On the whole it was a sweet movie more of what you would have expected from the 1940's... and wasn't that the idea. They threw in more current concerns as homosexuality and racism which makes it more 1990's. Nice film.
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Summary: Above average (3 1/2) from here on in the Spree
Review: Opinions, here's mine. This is a foreign film, foreign as in they consider film an art form not an industry (thanks Sam Mendes)This is a story of another time, where the pace people lived at was different than now. That fact needs to be apparent from the beginning of the film. The Pachelbel Canon is a beautiful choice for flying music when you don't have a big budget. I liked these characters. I felt for their situations and understood how you could get there. Top of my list of scenes: Russell Crowe reciting "High Flight" it was done beautifully. I'd like to see and hear him do Shakespeare. One of the other reviewers said they felt the character of Lill was "wooden". Was she? Or was it her character trying to resist Lachlan? I felt like she knew, from the beginning, she could never give in totally to him . In just a few weeks he'd be gone, like her husband, who she had loved too. So, was she "wooden" or was she just saving a part of herself so she could survive sending these people she loved off to war? I did enjoy "Waltzing Matilda". On the whole it was a sweet movie more of what you would have expected from the 1940's... and wasn't that the idea. They threw in more current concerns as homosexuality and racism which makes it more 1990's. Nice film.
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Summary: Finally the whole movie!
Review: Russell Crowe made this film just before his United States of America debut in L.A. Confidential (1997). Very nice and beautifully-filmed film set in West canada in 1942. Pilots-in-training find love with very nice women. Russell Crowe plays "lachlan" who is from Australia. He begins a nice friendship with a women (Christine Hirt) on a farm. it becomes a tender, forbidden romance. Lachlan wanted love and found it, even if it was for the moment. Incidentally, Russell Crowe found love too. In 2003, he married Danielle Spencer, whom he worked with in The Crossing (1990). They now have a newborn son.
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Summary: Russell Crowe finds love.
Review: Russell Crowe made this film just before his United States of America debut in L.A. Confidential (1997). Very nice and beautifully-filmed film set in West canada in 1942. Pilots-in-training find love with very nice women. Russell Crowe plays "lachlan" who is from Australia. He begins a nice friendship with a women (Christine Hirt) on a farm. it becomes a tender, forbidden romance. Lachlan wanted love and found it, even if it was for the moment. Incidentally, Russell Crowe found love too. In 2003, he married Danielle Spencer, whom he worked with in The Crossing (1990). They now have a newborn son.
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Summary: Solid Nostalgic WWII Romance
Review: The story is quite good, depicting a real look at the way WWII affected people's emotions. Russell Crowe is excellent as the Aussie heartbreaker. The film may suffer slightly from the secondary romance, but it fits well within the overall plot of the movie. It made me want to be right in the middle of it. The filming is beautiful and the characters are engaging. I wish more movies like it were made.
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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: There are better Russell Crowe movies, but this one is my sentimental favorite! It is beautiful and touches the heart with its simplicity!
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Summary: This is one amazing movie.
Review: This certainly was a movie that not only touched me but also inspired many aspects of my life. It portrays love in such a beautiful way and especially for all you women out there, this definitely is one to watch. I had never heard about this movie untill I watched it on TV the other day, it certainly deserves more credit than it has received so far. A truely amazing film is all I have left to say.
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