Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzu1950s Australia: Ken, 16, gets thrown out of school for selling his drawings of a naked teacher there. He starts working at his uncle's clothing warehouse, where workmates bring him closer t... Alles lesen1950s Australia: Ken, 16, gets thrown out of school for selling his drawings of a naked teacher there. He starts working at his uncle's clothing warehouse, where workmates bring him closer to women.1950s Australia: Ken, 16, gets thrown out of school for selling his drawings of a naked teacher there. He starts working at his uncle's clothing warehouse, where workmates bring him closer to women.
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Just picked this up in a sale bin on DVD and mighty glad I did. I wasn't expecting too much, but I was taken by surprise by how good it is. In one sense it's a typical teen coming-of-age movie, but it has a really good script with several interweaving plotlines which all work, held together by excellent performances from the three teen leads, plus the adults (particularly Mum)and some good supporting performances. It captures the spirit of the fifties well, with a superb soundtrack plus a cameo appearance from R&B legend Little Willie Littlefield (and an excerpt from the classic rock'n'roll movie The Girl Can't Help It). Above all it's funny, particularly the sequence when the boys finally get to the brothel in Kalgoorlie, only to have the working girls practically go on strike just as they think they're finally about to taste the delights of sex! Although better known as a producer, David Elfick directs with finesse and the gaudy fifties decor fits the bill exactly. This has to be one of the best movies of its kind, and I shall be watching my DVD a lot.
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Love In Limbo is my all-time favoirite movie. (set in W.A) It is hilairious and has an excellent cast including a group of three gorgeous actors, Russell Crowe (As Arthur), back in the day when he actually looked HOT with short hair and no facial hair. Aden Young (Barry McJannet), and Craig Adams as Ken Riddle.
Ken is a senior high school student obsessed with sex and becomes expelled for selling pornographic drawings to his classmates. He starts a new job at his uncles clothing factory and becomes close with another new guy Barry McJannet, who buys a car so that they can go out and pick up chicks. They become mates with the goody-twoshoes geek Arthur Baskin (Crowe) and the three guys drive up to Kalgoorlie to vsit a brothel and lose their virginity......
Watch it, its a classic!! For so long i have been TRYING to get a hold of a DVD or Soundtrack, anyone let me know if you've got em.
Ken is a senior high school student obsessed with sex and becomes expelled for selling pornographic drawings to his classmates. He starts a new job at his uncles clothing factory and becomes close with another new guy Barry McJannet, who buys a car so that they can go out and pick up chicks. They become mates with the goody-twoshoes geek Arthur Baskin (Crowe) and the three guys drive up to Kalgoorlie to vsit a brothel and lose their virginity......
Watch it, its a classic!! For so long i have been TRYING to get a hold of a DVD or Soundtrack, anyone let me know if you've got em.
Cant believe it.... after all these years finally tracked this down.. it was meant to be named 'The Great Pretender' at production stage. I was living in Oz at time and through a friend was looking after one of the house locations through filming.... It was me that showed these guys how to speak Scottish and after all this time, I only realise now one was Russell Crowe !!! It has taken me all these years to track this down, was even unsure if it ever went to screen as I left Oz the following month after wrap up party. At that time Russell Crowe was not the demanded actor he is now and I had no idea it was him until I saw the previous comment then thought back to the days during filming..... amazing... Truly delighted with myself now !!!
This film follows a young geeky Australian in his late teenage years in the 1950s. Expelled from school for drawing pornographic pictures (ah, innocent times!) he gets a job in his uncle's clothing factory and makes friends with two young men that work with him.
The young trio embark on a series of amusing set pieces - their first car, a drive in, a visit to the bottle shop and the outback whorehouse - that see them grow as men and friends.
Nice enough, and worth a watch if only to see a young Russell Crowe playing with a VERY bad Welsh accent!
The young trio embark on a series of amusing set pieces - their first car, a drive in, a visit to the bottle shop and the outback whorehouse - that see them grow as men and friends.
Nice enough, and worth a watch if only to see a young Russell Crowe playing with a VERY bad Welsh accent!
"Love in Limbo" is like an Australian take on "Porky's" or "Lemon Popsicle", only with slightly more engaging characters, and a less repulsive attitude to women.
The movie is set, of course, in the '50s. Why are these coming-of-age/sex comedies so often set in the youthful days of the filmmakers? Why don't they just set them in the modern day, and capture the youth market? There's not enough nostalgia value in this stuff to interest people who were teenagers in the '50s, even in the 1990s.
Anyway.
The protagonist in this film is an expert in sexual matters, but a virgin. He knows the words but not the music, as Groucho would say. Sex starved, he has devoted himself to the study of the act, but has no idea how to make it happen. There is much truth to this, and many people, young or old, can relate to having booksmarts, but no streetsmarts.
Ken Riddle, the protagonist, is even smart enough to make money off his obsession, producing pornographic drawings to sell to his peers in the days before Playboy, late-night films, SBS, and long before the internet.
His proclivity gets him in trouble, and he is expelled from school, so goes to work, where his supervisor is even more socially inept than he is: a Welshman by name of Arthur, who is played by Russell Crowe!
I have never seen Crowe in a role like this, and this is not surprising. He feels very strangely miscast. It is hard to believe that this movie came out AFTER "Romper Stomper"! Who the hell saw his terrifying portrayal of a psychopathic skinhead and thought, he's the man to play the priggish Welsh stick-in-the-mud who works in a clothing factory?
I can only assume the movie was cast or filmed before "Stomper".
Australian filmgoers may also recognize Martin Sachs, the guy who tried to steal the Super Mario voice actor's job in "Underbelly" (ugh), and the adorable Maya Stange as Ken Riddle's twin sister Ivy.
I have often felt that other countries' treatment of sex - especially in the awkward phase - is a lot more frank than America's, despite the perhaps literally infinite number of sex comedies that came out of there in the '80s (just try to watch them all).
This results in a more truthful, and even more erotic, experience.
Those American pics are made by adults, and yet seem to share the protagonists' attitude to sex.
Films like "Love in Limbo" are deeper, more knowing, and more empathetic.
If the film has another obvious flaw, however, it's in the double-miscasting of the protagonist, along with Crowe. I feel the movie would have benefited from a more charismatic lead actor.
The movie is set, of course, in the '50s. Why are these coming-of-age/sex comedies so often set in the youthful days of the filmmakers? Why don't they just set them in the modern day, and capture the youth market? There's not enough nostalgia value in this stuff to interest people who were teenagers in the '50s, even in the 1990s.
Anyway.
The protagonist in this film is an expert in sexual matters, but a virgin. He knows the words but not the music, as Groucho would say. Sex starved, he has devoted himself to the study of the act, but has no idea how to make it happen. There is much truth to this, and many people, young or old, can relate to having booksmarts, but no streetsmarts.
Ken Riddle, the protagonist, is even smart enough to make money off his obsession, producing pornographic drawings to sell to his peers in the days before Playboy, late-night films, SBS, and long before the internet.
His proclivity gets him in trouble, and he is expelled from school, so goes to work, where his supervisor is even more socially inept than he is: a Welshman by name of Arthur, who is played by Russell Crowe!
I have never seen Crowe in a role like this, and this is not surprising. He feels very strangely miscast. It is hard to believe that this movie came out AFTER "Romper Stomper"! Who the hell saw his terrifying portrayal of a psychopathic skinhead and thought, he's the man to play the priggish Welsh stick-in-the-mud who works in a clothing factory?
I can only assume the movie was cast or filmed before "Stomper".
Australian filmgoers may also recognize Martin Sachs, the guy who tried to steal the Super Mario voice actor's job in "Underbelly" (ugh), and the adorable Maya Stange as Ken Riddle's twin sister Ivy.
I have often felt that other countries' treatment of sex - especially in the awkward phase - is a lot more frank than America's, despite the perhaps literally infinite number of sex comedies that came out of there in the '80s (just try to watch them all).
This results in a more truthful, and even more erotic, experience.
Those American pics are made by adults, and yet seem to share the protagonists' attitude to sex.
Films like "Love in Limbo" are deeper, more knowing, and more empathetic.
If the film has another obvious flaw, however, it's in the double-miscasting of the protagonist, along with Crowe. I feel the movie would have benefited from a more charismatic lead actor.
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