Rent Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
3.0 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
Set in the Summer of 1910 in Australia, the film follows the story of Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhred), a 14-year old motherless youth, as he stumbles from childhood toward the alluring, often forbidding world of adults. This courageous young boy confronts the hardships and blows that life deals him, and for Alan the hammer blows are particularly savage as he is struck down by polio as an infant and unable to walk without crutches. For Alan there is but one passion in life to become a great horseman just like his hero, the horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe) and nothing will suppress his ambition. During the course of the summer, Alan meets Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling), an intoxicating aristocratic English woman who falls in love with the much younger East Driscoll. Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East Driscoll becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Alan is then faced with the mystery of social taboos, the injustice of death of a dear friend, the destruction of his hero and the frighteningly dark and capricious side of human nature. - Actors:
- Charlotte Rampling, Russell Crowe, Alexander Outhred, Frankie J. Holden, Jake Frost, Alethea McGrath, John Lee, Frank Gallacher, Amanda Douge, Kirsty McGregor, Daphne Grey, Caroline Kemp, Sam Nightingale, Syd Brisbane, Peter Osborn, Wayne Pygram, Lachlan Fischer, John Francis, Hugh Gordon, Janet Gordon
- Directors:
- Ann Turner
- Producers:
- Ben Gannon
- Writers:
- Alan Marshall, Peter Hepworth, Ann Turner, Mark Poole
- Studio:
- Stax Entertainment
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
- Countries:
- Australia
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Don't! - Hammers Over the Anvil review by CP Customer
Yes - Russell Crowe is in it and usually I'm a fan of Australian films as they are so open and refreshing. This unfortunately is the cinematic equivalent of concealed grease. It is dull, unappealing and leaden - avoid.
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