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They recognize Film Producer Freddie Fields and his friends in the Polo Lounge, but Fields is a long way from Beverly Hills, on patrol in deepest North Carolina. With him are Australian Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies) and several indisputable movie stars--notably Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek and Jessica Lange--in addition to the assorted children, nannies, pets, significant others, caterers, crew members, drivers, accountants, studio biggies, flacks, journalists, rent-a-cops, cutpurses and dancing bears that accumulate when a film company hits the road. Fields, Beresford and the rest have come to North Carolina for the filming...
This is precarious stuff, difficult to play at just the right edge of hysteria. Director Beresford, a big, comfortable, good-humored man, nudges the looniness in the proper direction. He is the right man for the job, Lange says, partly because "he really likes women. He enjoys their energy." The three actresses, each of whom has won an Academy Award, did not know one another before Crimes. They have maintained separate lives off the set. Lange lives with Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who plays her former lover in the film, their six-month-old daughter Hannah and Lange's five...
With the shooting in Southport down to the last few days, Beresford is pleased but cautious: "It's all just puzzle fragments until you put it together." He will solve the puzzle somehow in August in Los Angeles. Crimes will be released in December. The house on North Caswell Street is to be sold. Southport's mayor has asked that it be accorded landmark status...
...unassuming acting contributes to the honest view of the Australian culture, which is filled with highly disciplined schools and lives off the seashore. Beresford is well known for placing his characters against breathtaking, fresh, wide-open landscapes, whether in America's as in Tender Mercies, or in a war-torn Australia as in the poignant Breaker Moram...
...quelled not by authority figures like parents but by their own burgeoning awareness of their own needs--which do not necessarily include belonging to the cool surfer clique: We identify with Debbie and Sue because their struggles with independence are fresh and vivid, and at times terribly frustrating. Beresford doesn't condemn these characters. Rather he reaffirms our beliefs that puberty isn't just cuddling around a sparkling campfire...