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For the Moment(Movie, 1993)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Genres: War, Drama, Romance / Love, Action
For the MomentRating: 2.9/5 (with 33 votes)
For the Moment is a 1993 film written and directed by Aaron Kim Johnston and starring Russell Crowe and Christianne Hirt. The plot revolves around airmen training in rural Manitoba, Canada, with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during the Second World War. The main focus of the story is the wartime romance between Russell Crowe's character and a local girl. Johnston was inspired to write the screenplay based upon the stories of his father who was an instructor and bomber pilot in the war, and his mother's experiences as a young woman on the home front. ()
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About For the Moment

This Canadian film presents and old-fashioned war time romance. It is set during 1942 in Manitoba and traces the doomed affair between a young farmer's wife (Christianne Hirt) whose husband is fighting abroad and a dashing Australian pilot (Russell Crowe). The pilot has come to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of Canada. When the pilot, Lachlan, is not training, he is surreptitiously wooing Lill, the farmer's wife. At the other end of town, Betsy (Wanda Cannon) who supports her two kids by bootlegging, charges for her services. She gets involved with Zeek (Scott Kraft), an American flight instructor.

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Additional Information

Production country: Canada
Plays in: Manitoba
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 6 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/19/1996 (World premiere: 10/01/1993)
Director: Aaron Kim Johnston
Producer: National Film Board of Canada, Rogers Communications, Telefilm Canada
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Un temps pour aimer"
Budget: 120 USD

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