George Ogilvie's THE CROSSING is a tense, small-town romantic drama set in the Australian outback.
Johnny (Russell Crowe of PROOF), the son of a smothering mother and dead war-hero father, has just proposed and made love for the first time to Meg (Danielle Spencer). The next day, Anzac Day, when the small town honors its war dead, sees the return of Sam (Robert Mammone), who had left for "the
city" to study art. He and Meg had been lovers before he left without saying goodbye. Now, finding his life empty without her, he has returned to take her back. As the bored, provincial locals look on, Sam tries to win Meg back in the middle of the town's Anzac Day parade. ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
94 mins