Love in Limbo

Love in Limbo is a 1993 Australian romantic comedy film directed and produced by David Elfick. The film stars Craig Adams, Aden Young and Russell Crowe. The film was released on 20 May 1993. Visually the film was heavily influenced by The Girl Can't Help It (1956).[2] It was nominated for three awards by the Australian Film Institute in 1992.[3]

Love in Limbo
Directed byDavid Elfick
Produced byDavid Elfick
Written byJohn Cundill
Starring
Music byPeter Kaldor
CinematographyStephen F. Windon
Edited byStuart Armstrong
Production
company
Palm Beach Productions
Distributed byPrism Leisure Corporation
Release date
  • 20 May 1993 (1993-05-20)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box officeA$74,448 (Australia)[1]

Plot

Cast
  • Craig Adams as Ken Riddle
  • Rhondda Findleton as Gwen Riddle
  • Martin Sacks as Max Wiseman
  • Aden Young as Barry McJannet
  • Russell Crowe as Arthur Baskin
  • Maya Stange as Ivy Riddle
  • Samantha Murray as Maisie
  • Bill Young as Uncle Herbert
  • Leith Taylor as Mrs. Rutherford
  • Jill Perryman as Aunt Dorry
  • Robert van Mackelenberg as Headmaster
  • Peter De Bari as Schoolboy
  • Arianthe Galani as Mrs. Costanides
  • Faye Metaxas as Mrs. Laventis
  • Igor Sas as Maurice Hosking

Reception

Rob Lowing, film critic for the Sydney Morning Herald rated the film two stars out of four. Lowing described the film as "unatmospheric but well-produced" and "laced with distressingly puerile Porky's-like humour".[4] For Cinema Papers, Karl Quinn wrote, "To note that David Elfick's Love In Limbo is a beautifully-designed film is to point to both its greatest strength and its great weakness, for it is surely one of the best recent examples of the triumph of style over substance".[5]

Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton for SBS TV's The Movie Show both rated the film three stars out of five. In her review Pomeranz concluded, "Love in Limbo may not be ultimately, totally satisfying but it certainly has its share of entertaining moments". Stratton praised the production design, adding, "The acknowledgement to movies of the 50s is very clear here and very well done".[6]

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See also

References
  1. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 13 November 2012
  2. Andrew L. Urban, "David Elfick's Love in Limbo", Cinema Papers, January 1993 p24-28
  3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107450/awards
  4. "30 May 1993, Page 107 - The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. Quinn, Karl (August 1994). "Film Reviews - Love in Limbo". Cinema Papers. 94: 44–45.
  6. "Love in Limbo - Review (The Movie Show)". SBS On Demand. 19 May 1993. Retrieved 19 April 2020.


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