Fantastic

Its a great play by a fantastic Australian author. It really points our how we can be cold in mid life if we don't watch it, and how we should be warmer, like little kids or old people, towards others. The play has the travelling North and South that many of us do on the East Coast of Australia, and I have done. A great play about love throughout our lives. Thanks to the great teaching style of my old Knox Grammar school teacher, Mr Bootle, I could understand it. I was not an easy student.

The great Mr. McKern collected a few awards for this role, and I'd certainly add my own Alternate Oscar. 'course I'm prejudiced, I've been a longtime fan of LM from Clang to Rumpole, and seeing him in a romantic lead was a special treat. I saw the film in a specialty cinema back in '88 and hope I can track down the DVD (too lazy to check right now.) It'd be a welcome revisit after all these years. I particularly recall his hurt feelings after being made blatantly unwelcome by one of the daughters and his own regrets about behavior toward his first wife: "If I actually said that, it was unforgivable!" An old unkindness can be a permanent thorn in the conscience, but LM's performance in this film is a joy forever.