Max takes a shine to Gwen and suggests they go into business manufacturing some of her dress designs. He tries to copy Max's techniques in wooing women but for Ken the results are disastrous. Max Wiseman, (Martin Sacks) the company's top sales representative and something of a Romeo, becomes Ken's idol. He goes to work for his Uncle (Bill Young) in a clothing company. Ken is expelled from school after his lucrative underground industry of nude female drawings is uncovered. Ken's mother Gwen, (Rhondda Findleton) is an attractive 36 year old woman who has sacrificed her own life since being widowed to bringing up her twins, Ken and Ivy (Maya Stange). His problem is that his knowledge is academic, not practical - he's still a virgin! Ken Riddle (Craig Adams) is an artistic fifteen year old with a rampant libido and a passionate interest in the female form. the casting of hot young stars Crowe and Young in roles different to those that brought fame in Romper Stomper and Black Robe is intriguing." Who Magazine Robert Drewe, Film Critic its bold saturated colours give it the quirky heightened reality flashness at Pedro Almodovar films. ![]() the most stylised local film since Gillian Armstrong's Starstruck. director-producer David Elfick seems to have painted this rites-of-passage period comedy with the complete Dulux enamel range. "Love In Limbo is probably the brightest film ever made in Australia. The director’s website here used much the same synopsis, but added a reviewer’s blurb: Puffing on Lucky Strikes lit by Zippos, driving Studebakers adorned with tailfins, all the while shaking, rattling and rolling, the characters in Love in Limbo are innocent of greed, unaware of the world's looming crises, free of flower power and safe from sex.īut they do want to fall out of limbo and into love. Ken Riddle, 16, to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work on a trip to Kalgoorlie's infamous red light street in a fumbling attempt to collectively lose their virginity.Ĭoincidentally, his glamorous widowed mother Gwen, a talented dress designer, sets out on her own wobbly journey, to a new romance - and a new career - on stiletto heels. ![]() Set to the Rhythm and Blues tunes of unrequited love and designed for maximum visual impact, the film plays with the icons of the era, and the social mores of the day. Love in Limbo is a technicolour tour around the teenage libido as it was in 1957, when sex was still a dirty word. The Beyond press kit offered pretty much the same synopsis, but also added a storyline: Love in Limbo is a good time comedy flick about love, zits and rock ’n’ roll! Puffing on Lucky Strikes lit by Zippos, driving Studebakers adorned with tailfins, all the while shaking, rattling and rolling, the characters in Love in Limbo are innocent of greed, unaware of the world’s looming crises, free of flower power and safe from sex. Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young), on a trip to Kalgoorlie’s infamous red light street in a fumbling attempt to collectively lose their virginity. Remember a time when nothing was more important than the opposite sex? The rear of the slick asked a question, and provided a short synopsis: The original domestic VHS release worked the title into the pitch on the front cover: (Note: this listing contains spoilers and also sexual content).
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