After 18 months Sam returns to his place of birth. He wants to ask his girlfriend Meg who he had let down when he left, to go with him to the big city. However Meg was deeply sad because of...
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1 win & 2 nominations.
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| Russell Crowe | ... | Johnny | |
| Robert Mammone | ... | Sam | |
| Danielle Spencer | ... | Meg | |
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Emily Lumbers | ... | Jenny |
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Rodney Bell | ... | Shorty |
| Ben Oxenbould | ... | Heavyfoot | |
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Myles Collins | ... | Stretch |
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Marc Aden Gray | ... | Nort (as Marc Gray) |
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Megan Connolly | ... | Kathleen |
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John Blair | ... | Billy |
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Rani Lockland | ... | Gail |
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Ajay Rochester | ... | Mandy (as Lea-Ann Towler) |
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Paul Robertson | ... | Birdie |
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George Whaley | ... | Sid |
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Jacquy Phillips | ... | Marion (as Jacqy Phillips) |
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After 18 months Sam returns to his place of birth. He wants to ask his girlfriend Meg who he had let down when he left, to go with him to the big city. However Meg was deeply sad because of Sam's leaving, that she had started a relation with his best friend Johnny. At the night of Sam's unexpected return, Johhny asks Meg to marry him. Meg is forced to make a choice! That Saturday night, Meg and a desperate and drunk Johhny deceide to escape from their dancing night. The only problem is, that Sam at that same time leaves the village to go to the big city and he pursues them. In this tragical night, two cars are racing on the freeway on their way to the level crossing and a frontal car accident... Written by Edwin van Oorschot <info@edwinvanoorschot.nl>
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Written by Kenneth Alford
Performed by The Australian Miltary Band
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Russell Crowe (Johnny) met Danielle Spencer (Meg) at this film and they are now married See more »Soundtracks
Colonel Bogey MarchWritten by Kenneth Alford
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The film is highly engaging and presently vastly underrated. It effectively portrays the trauma of potential heterosexual love rejection. The acting is superb with believable characters. Johnny (youthful Russell Crowe) was entirely believable: a lovelorn and sympathetic youth at the same time displaying toughness and aggression. Sam's (Robert Mammone) character was of an artistically gifted but independent soul that realised it needed some root which could not be truly found in hometown or family. Lovelly Meg (Danielle Spencer) had been girlfriend firstly of Sam and subsequently of Johnny; had felt rejected by Sam's past departure and needed healing. She found herself in great difficulty in choosing between her two suitors and needed time to do so. Events also transpired to resolve these problems for an ultimately stable outcome. This outcome was tragic but also the only resolution to the otherwise unresolvable tensions arising from this heterosexual love triangle.