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Annie's Coming Out

1984, Movie, PG, 93 mins

Annie's Coming Out: Review

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A true story based on the experiences of Anne McDonald and Rosemary Crossley. The names have been changed for this Australian movie, but the facts hew closely to their book. Angela Punch-McGregor goes to work at a home for disabled children and meets Tina Arhondis, a child afflicted with severe cerebral palsy. The child is being cared for in only a caretaking fashion, and McGregor senses that beneath the palsy there is a brain that can be tapped. McGregor eventually must go to court to prove the child can function in society. Her dedication to her goal proves to be destructive to her relationship with boy friend Drew Forsythe, but she finds greater pleasure in winning her battle with the shortsighted authorities who have misread the child's physical ailments. Most of the children seen in the background were handicapped and taken from various Melbourne centers to work on the main set at the Convent of the Good Shepherd in the Abbotsford section of Melbourne. Arhondis is sensational in the role that she is actually living. The multi-award-winning McGregor (Best Actress in Australia for THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH as well as Best Supporting Actress that same year for NEWSFRONT) shines in her Annie Sullivan-type part. The movie culminates when the case is brought before an understanding judge, Charles Tingwell, who finds for Arhondis and sets her life on a different path. In real life McDonald (whom Arhondis plays) has gone off to study at a university and is living a rich, rewarding life. Because this is a true story, it must be looked at slightly differently. Many of the scenes did happen, but after having seen the same scenes so often in fictional stories, these moments look as though they are cliches. The best thing about A TEST OF LOVE is that it is shot with little commentary, and it seems more of a semi-documentary than an actual scripted motion picture. An uplifting movie that touches the spirit. leave a comment
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