The Crossing *** (1990, Russell Crowe, Robert Mammone, Danielle Spencer) – Classic Movie Review 5805

Director George Ogilvie’s 1990 Australian romance drama tells an attractive love triangle yarn. It is set in a small country town in Sixties Australia, keenly acted by the young Russell Crowe, Robert Mammone and Danielle Spencer and directed with feeling.

A change in the young trio’s relationship leads to a head-on clash as the comic elements of Aussie provincial life are juxtaposed with a feeling of impending tragedy. Sam (Mammone) returns to his hometown, hoping that Meg (Spencer), the girlfriend he abandoned 18 months earlier, will go back with him to the big city. But heartbroken Meg has begun an affair with Sam’s friend Johnny (Crowe), who has just asked Meg to marry him.

It is an appealing film that is easy to overlook, but it is thoroughly worthwhile, and its hit record by The Proclaimers brought it some deserved attention. It is Ranald Allan’s first screenplay as sole writer.

Daphne Gray, George Whaley, Jacqy Phillips, Patrick Ward, May Lloyd, Emily Lumbers, Rodney Bell, Ben Oxenbould, Marc Aden Gray and John Blair.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 5805

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