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Summary: Great Eye Candy
Review: This movie has hot young stars including Brendan Fehr and Corey Sevier. Corey is a great actor and he looks great here. I have been a fan of his since seeing him on "The WB's Black Sash". He has a great face, voice, and body. His ABS are very well defined, and he is only 19! Brendan, his acting is quite well as he plays the nasty character Simon. Brendan's scene where her rapes the girl is quite disturbing. The sex scene between Corey and the girl is quite erotic and very well done, it looked so real, maybe it was...I will admit this movie is not only for girls, I think that guys will like it too. (...).
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Summary: Great Story and Fabulous Actors
Review: This movie is not your typical light hearted Hollywood fare but a grim realistic portrayal of a young woman's struggle to survive in the harsh frontier world of western Canada in the 1850s. I found the scenery brooding yet impressive, perfect for setting the dark moods of this movie. The costuming too looked very authentic for the period, nothing fancy but what served them well for survival. The cast impressed me too. Newcomer Caroline Dhaveras is the main character and puts on a fine performance in both a difficult and sympathetic part. Brendan Fehr is suitably brutal in the part of the vicious husband, Corey Sevier as the decent brother has the complex role of being a character with both strengths and weaknesses and pulls it off very well. Paul Johannsen is the kindhearted authority who has to investigate a puzzling mystery. All the acting is top notch. While not for everyone due to its gloomy subject matter and quite graphic use of violence and sex, I found this movie, directed by Anne Wheeler, to be a fascinating glimpse of what it might have been like for young people trapped out in a forbidding world they couldn't ever have prepared themselves for. I would definitely rate this movie at least 4 of out 5 stars.
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Summary: Edge of Madness: Gritty Realistic Period Piece
Review: This movie is not your typical light hearted Hollywood fare but a grim realistic portrayal of a young woman's struggle to survive in the harsh frontier world of western Canada in the 1850s. I found the scenery brooding yet impressive, perfect for setting the dark moods of this movie. The costuming too looked very authentic for the period, nothing fancy but what served them well for survival. The cast impressed me too. Newcomer Caroline Dhaveras is the main character and puts on a fine performance in both a difficult and sympathetic part. Brendan Fehr is suitably brutal in the part of the vicious husband, Corey Sevier as the decent brother has the complex role of being a character with both strengths and weaknesses and pulls it off very well. Paul Johannsen is the kindhearted authority who has to investigate a puzzling mystery. All the acting is top notch. While not for everyone due to its gloomy subject matter and quite graphic use of violence and sex, I found this movie, directed by Anne Wheeler, to be a fascinating glimpse of what it might have been like for young people trapped out in a forbidding world they couldn't ever have prepared themselves for. I would definitely rate this movie at least 4 of out 5 stars.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Eye Candy
Review: This movie stars Brendan Fehr and Corey Sevier. Corey is a great actor, I have been a fan of his since seeing him on "The WB's Black Sash". He has a great face, voice, and body. His ABS are very well defined, and he is only 19! Brendan, his acting is quite well as he plays the nasty character Simon. Brendan's scene where her rapes the girl is quite disturbing. The sex scene between Corey and the girl is quite erotic and very well done, it looked so real, maybe it was...I will admit this movie is not only for girls, I think that guys will like it too. I am a guy who enjoyed it with my girlfriend.
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Summary: If you can't beat Hollywood at CGI, beat 'em at realism.
Review: What must it have been like in the 1800's, homesteading the Canadian plains, for a young woman in a marriage of convenience to a brutish husband? When the accents mingled curiously? I think I have acquired a sense of that because the effort of the film-makers to offer an authentic texture to the wilderness settlement. The story is presented in the form of a mystery, altho the resolution is pretty easy to anticipate. It's the characters we meet along the way, situations, their interaction, their sensibilities, that move the story. But at a languid pace, like the times--when commuting was measured in hours and days. The resilient young woman is the center of two plots and her determination is made plausbible by the immensely talented Caroline Dhavernas, and palatable with her offbeat beauty and lovely French-Canadian accent. The other actors acquit themselves well, even the normally amateurish Brendan Fehr. But only the direction (by Anne Wheeler) and photography contribute as much as Dhavernas does. Not a great film, but fascinating if you want atmosphere, and a glimpse of a different era, and plenty of glimpses of a nude Dhavernas (seemingly more necessary for selling the movie than enhancing the story).
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