Crippled with polio, youngster Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhred) admires horse breeder East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Unlike Alan's shopkeeper father, East strikes the impressionable Alan as positively larger than life; that is, as larger than life as one can be in the Australian outback circa 1910. Exploring the local terrain, pre-teen Alan starts keeping a journal about country life and the mysteries of sex. Alan's nascent interest in romance escalates when the elegant Grace McAllister (Charlotte Rampling) moves to Turalla with her effete husband and promptly hires virile East as horse breeder for her ranch. Naively, Alan develops a crush on Grace, but she's alread...
Released:
1992
Rated:
NR
Length:
101 mins