Hammers over the Anvil
by Ann Turner
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Actor: Alexander Outhred, Charlotte Rampling, Frankie J. Holden, Jake Frost, Russell CroweDirector: Ann Turner
Primary Contributor: Frankie J. Holden
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-12-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
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Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this UNRATED movie becasue we love horses and horse stores. I threw it in the garbage after 10 minutes of viewing. Thannk Goid my children were not in the room. It was discusting. Nudity and sex. Its not for families. I'm sick I didn't read the description better.
Summary of Hammers over the Anvil
A humane, well-observed coming-of-age tale set in the Australian outback, Hammers over the Anvil details with gentle frankness the growing self-awareness of Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhred), a boy whose dreams of riding a horse are hampered as much by his dull shopkeeper father as by the braces on Alan's crippled legs. Alan's idealized role model is the tanned and rugged East Driscoll (Russell Crowe), a friendly but solitary man given to lonely midnight rides, whose individuality and happy embrace of nature seem, to the budding young writer, nearly pagan. (The opening scene of the film is of East merrily splashing about naked in a stream with his horses, with Alan gazing on admiringly.) East is the sort of good-natured, simple soul who thinks nothing of calling the young man always close on his heels a "bloke" and offering him swigs from his flask. Nor is he the type to hesitate from making his move when the lovely Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling) comes to town just because her staid husband is in tow. The touching love scenes between East and Grace are believable and carnal (one realizes that part of the reason it took so long for Crowe to reach superstardom was the lack of a female lead who could appraise his unapologetic masculinity as wittily and engagingly as Rampling does here), all the more so for being viewed through Alan's eyes. Ann Turner has crafted a film much quieter that her fine, fantastical Celia (albeit every bit as heartbreakingly ironic), but it is no less sympathetic and understanding of a child's sometimes confusing view of the adult world. --Bruce ReidArt House & International DVD Video
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