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Singleton </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="575" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>A little bit of paradise</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Kate: Sarah Peirse</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Cady: Marton Csokas</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Ed: Alistair Browning</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Janey: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Jim: Aaron Murphy</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Writer/Director: Christine Jeffs</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: A marriage, slowly growing distant, is put to the test when a mother and her 13-year-old daughter are both attracted to a man who is vacationing on a boat near their summer beach house. Brief moments of importance have profound long-term consequences for the couple as well as the girl and her young brother. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Ed and Kate (Alistair Browning and Sarah Peirse) have hit the spot in their marriage where they have the material things they want, which forces them to really look at one another and wonder where the marriage is going. Ed wants to be happy with their summer home and his two growing children. Hanging over their relationship is the fact that there is at best a small spark in their sexual relationship. They manage to tolerate each other with drinking at the beach, boozing at parties and in general using alcohol as a segue to think about something other than the two of them one on one, be it in a conversation or in the sack. They are too tired to argue.</div> <bR> <div> Kate meets Cady (Marton Csokas), a photographer with a wandering eye, to which she readily responds. At their house parties, Ed knows Kate is flirting but that's par for the course in their relationship.</div> <bR> <div> Kate's sexual misconduct could have run it's course were it not for a kiss on the beach that is accidentally observed by her 13-year-old daughter Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki).  Rather than the kiss between Kate and Cady making her angry or jealous, Janey becomes curious about her own sexuality. Under the guise of wanting Cady to take pictures of her like he did of her family, Janey manages to slowly make him start looking at her as a woman rather than a young budding teenager. </div> <div>  </div> <div> Janey shares a wonderful relationship with her seven-year-old brother Jim (Aaron Murphy), who like any young boy his age, is always into something. Sexual advances are made toward Janey by a teenaged boy, which allows us to see that while she is not a mature woman, she is not as lost as the average boy her age when it comes to one's sexuality. These scenes are arguably better than any others I've seen which explore the maturity gap between boys and girls during the early teen-age years. When Janey pursues the discovery of herself, she sets in motion not just a series of events but something that changes everything, forever, for each person in the family.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: Unlike the adultery in <I><B>Unfaithful</B></I>, which is a film I really loved, because it was sexy and entertaining, <I>Rain</I> is more like what really happens in a marriage. People get in a rut for whatever reason <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Symbol" >-</FONT> job, kids, different hobbies or whatever, and things just are never the same. Get too many things going on at the same time, moving in multiple directions and you can just about give up on making the effort to work things out. Continuous adjustment just runs into a brick wall. Although we learn how to survive, as much as we want to turn the clock back, it slowly dawns on us that it's not possible. </div> <bR> <div> Normally, I use my notes taken during the film to jog my thoughts on the movie. In this case, I didn't need them because the way the film unfolds and ends is something that is burned in your memory. It's not sensational, which is what makes it so powerful. Most of the bigger things I can think of in my life just happened and then you had to adjust to it, whether it was something good or bad. </div> <bR> <div> The acting is superb, in part because it's so understated and realistic. Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki and her brother Aaron Murphy deliver some of the best acting you'll see this year, including adults. This is a tribute to both the actors and the director.</div> <bR> <div> For some, the events regarding Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki will make them so uncomfortable that they may not enjoy the film or like the ending. For others, it will remind them of their youth, without the overt sexuality of films like <I><B>Bully </B></I>or <I><B>Lost & Delirious.</B></I> We can do bad things or make mistakes but that does not make us a bad person. It's a lot tougher though when what you do results in something that "I'm sorry" can't undo <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Symbol" >-</FONT> no matter how much you mean it. That's life.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="621" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> Not rated - mature themes</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> George O. 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