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For Love Alone (1986)
Christina Stead's novel For Love Alone was a best-seller in Australia, but remains essentially unknown to the outside world. The same can be said for this 1986 film version, likewise a homegrown Australian product. Set in the 1930s, the film stars Helen Buhay as a starry-eyed young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of society in general and her father in particular. She kicks over the traces to enter into a romance with college Latin professor Hugo Weaving. Still not realizing that Weaving considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, Helen nearly misses out on a chance for happiness with liberal-minded banker Sam Neill. Once she's settled down with Neill, the idealistic Buhay is smitten by another aesthete, poet Huw Williams. Neill encourages this affair, hoping that Buhay will eventually realize that there's more to true love than mere sexual impulsiveness.
Updated Jun 12 2015
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Naomi Watts
Leo's Girlfriend
Sam Neill
Jaxon
John Polson
Leo
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Andrew
Helen Buday
Teresa
Odile Le Clezio
Kitty
Anna Lise Phillips
Ann
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Stephen Wallace
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