Crush

Crush is the debut feature from Alison Maclean, who would go on to direct episodes of hit TV shows Sex and the City, Gossip Girl and The Tudors. Maclean's feature was the third...

New Zealand Production

Feature 1992 Drama 90.00 minutes

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Infatuation and manipulation enter the lives of an adolescent and her father because of the arrival of a reckless femme fatale. A piercing modern fable entwining the lives of an awkward adolescent girl, a malevolent femme fatale, a wheelchair-ridden critic and a once successful novelist, Crush inhabits an unspoilt landscape - Eden before the fall. That is, until a car crash blazes a destructive trail through the lives of the three women and one man.

1993: New Zealand Film and Television Awards

Best Female Performance - Film: Caitlin Bossley

Best Female Supporting Performance - Film: Donogh Rees

Best Film Score: The Jean Paul Sartre Experience and Antony Partos

Best Soundtrack: Greg Bell, Kit Rollings and Mike Hopkins

1992: Cannes Film Festival - in competition, Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Sydney International Film Festival.

1993: Adelaide Film Festival

Directors

Alison Maclean

Producers

Bridget Ikin

Screenplay Writers

Alison Maclean

Anne Kennedy

Cast

Marcia Gaye Harden
Lane

Donogh Rees
Christina

Caitlin Bosley
Angela Iseman

William Zappa
Colin Iseman

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