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Crossing Fields

1998, Movie, NR, 101 mins

Crossing Fields: Review

CROSSING FIELDS
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It's a lot like hanging out with someone else's mom for a couple of hours. Carol Bradley (Reedy Gibbs) is a churchgoing wife who finds her traditional Midwestern values simultaneously challenged on two fronts. First, her best friend Jessica (Gwynyth Walsh) is dumped by her philandering husband (Gary Sandy) after Jessica's affair with a married man brands her the town whore -- a title Jessica, to Carol's dismay, seems determined to live up to. Then, middle-aged Carol finds herself tempted away from the straight-and-narrow when she takes in a handsome 19-year-old, African-American boarder named James (William James Jones), and begins to question her conventional attitudes toward sex. For a while, first-time feature director James Rosenow does a fairly good job of balancing his two story lines -- James winds up working for Jessica on her farm -- but he never seems quite sure where the point of it all lies. Is this an indictment of double standards and small-town hypocrisy, the story of the sexual reawakening of middle-aged housewife by an exciting stranger, or an underdeveloped poke at the way white folks act? Perhaps sensing danger, Rosenow jettisons the most interesting parts of his story in order to bring it all under control, and he leaves quite a bit twisting in the breeze. That said, while much of the dialogue resembles warmed-over sex and drugs talk from the heady days of free love and the generation gap, Gibbs does make for a likable -- if unlikely heroine -- someone you really wouldn't mind spending a little time with. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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