For the Moment (1993)

Directed by

Aaron Kim Johnston

Genre

war film, romance film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War Two, airmen train in rural Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The story follows a romance between one of the pilots and a local young woman.

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What happens

For the Moment is a 1993 film written and directed by Aaron Kim Johnston and starring Russell Crowe and Christianne Hirt. The plot revolves around airmen training in rural Manitoba, Canada, with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during the Second World War. The main focus of the story is the wartime romance between Russell Crowe's character and a local girl. Johnston was inspired to write the screenplay based upon the stories of his father who was an instructor and bomber pilot in the war, and his mother's experiences as a young woman on the home front. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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