Time's Raging

Time's Raging
Based onshort story from Futility and Other Animals by Frank Moorhouse
Written bySophia Turkiewicz
Frank Moorhouse
Directed bySophia Turkiewicz
StarringJudy Morris
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerMichael Carson
Running time72 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC
Release1985 (1985)

Time's Raging is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Sophia Turkiewicz and starring Judy Morris and Penne Hackforth-Jones. The screenplay concerns a 38-year-old woman who wants a baby. It was the third episode on 1985's Sunday Australian Movies series.

Cast

Reception

The Age columnist Barbara Hook wrote "Although their crisp and snappy script very occasionally rings hollow, Moorehouse and Turkiewicz have underpinned it with perceptive and evocative moments which carry it off. And so we see the characters, motivated by guilt, fear or just plain cowardice, speak in half sentences and half truths as they try to hang on or let go, and the undercurrents of awkwardness and excitement which rie and fall around new relationships and familiar old ones. They are rarely neatly resolved in life and this telemovie not commit the sin of allowing them to do so in fiction."

In the Age's Green Guide Garrie Hutchinson says "I suppose it was trying to be bittersweet — you know, two lives to be lived, but not together, except that the man was so bone-headed that he didn't arouse any sympathy in me, and nor did the woman for not telling him to nick off as soon as he came back. Nice performances though, smart direction, the whole subject matter rather David Williamson-like, a field he can account for best himself."

In the Sydney Morning Herald's Guide Doug Anderson wrote "Glowing with warmth and soft light. Time's Raging has a sharpness of truth which slices the edges off clichés and presents well-rounded characters sling-slanging their way through the all-too-familiar obstacle course of interpersonal snakes and ladders."

Jacqueline Lee Lewes in the Sun-Herald says "Most of this telemovie was enjoyable with first-class performances from the cast but particularly Judy Morris. But there's a hitch - the Cam character. He is such a yob and so without charm that it's hard to understand what a classy like Lauren saw in him. And even harder to understand why she even considers having him back."

References

  1. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p154
  2. 1 2 Hutchinson, Garrie (3 October 1985), "Breath of fresh air hits the small screen", The Age
  3. ↑ Hooks, Barbara (20 September 1985), "Portrait of the bonds of working marriage", The Age
  4. ↑ Anderson, Doug (16 September 1985), "Soft light, sharp truth and deft acting in telemovie", The Sydney Morning Herald
  5. ↑ Lee Lewes, Jaqueline (22 September 1985), "Too gung-ho for his own good!", The Sun-Herald