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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 86278
Released: April 20, 2004 |
| Our Price: $13.89 |
| Used Price: $4.96 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Western Canada, 1942. A handsome Australian named Lachlan (Russell Crowe of The Quick and the Dead, Virtuosity, Gladiator) and other pilots in-training from around the world have the earth below them and a dark cloud over their heads: the life expectancy of a World War ll bomber pilot is six weeks. Now more than ever these brave young men reach out to seize the day. And with each day, loves can form, hearts can break, memories can be forged that will last generations. This "gorgeous-looking, romantic drama" (The Hollywood Reporter) explores the tender wartime romance between Lachlan and a lonely Manitoba farm girl (Christianne Hirt). It glows with the heart-tugging passion of a love that's inevitable yet doomed, and like the pilots and lives it celebrates, it soars.
Description of For the Moment:
A pre-superstardom Russell Crowe brings enough leading-man wattage to this modest Canadian drama to light all of Manitoba. Set in the prairie country above Minnesota in 1942, For the Moment's wartime romance stars Crowe as Lachlan, a rakish Australian pilot signed on to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, which trains fliers for combat duty. With an average life expectancy of the program's graduates no more than six weeks, Lachlan wastes no time wooing the attractive and lonely Lill (Christianne Hirt), wife of a farmer-turned-soldier serving overseas. The two fall in love, and their touching if secretive affair serves as a counterpoint to a more public, and tender, romance between the town's prostitute and Lachlan's commanding officer. Writer-director Aaron Kim Johnston eschews bathos for a graceful, even stately, tone to his tale of loneliness and loss. The staggeringly charming, dashing Crowe, however, makes For the Moment compelling. --Tom Keogh
For the Moment Reviews:
FOR THE MOMENT 
2009-07-05 - FOR THE MOMENT WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO RUSSELL CROWE, AND EVEN THEN, HE DID NOT DISAPPOINT. FOR THE WWII ERA ENTHUSIAST, THIS IS A "MUST-SEE" MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT PILOT TRAINING, WHICH TAKES PLACE IN CANADA AND FEATURES BEAUTIFUL SCENERY.
For The Moment 
2009-06-01 - I wish I could rate this transaction a zero, but I don't find a way to do that.
The copy of the movie that was sent to me is, I believe, a "bootleg" copy. Although it came in a what appeared to be a legitimate cover, there are several suspicious things about it. First, the cover says that the run time is 120 minutes. The copy sent to me only runs 95 minutes. I ordered the same movie from Netflix just to compare - the Netflix version is 25 minutes longer and contains A NUMBER of scenes not shown in the one I purchased. Almost without exception, each of the omitted scenes were fairly significant to the overall impact of the story line of the movie. Additionally, the copy sent to me was of very poor video quality compared to the one from Netflix.
So far, neither Amazon or their DVD distributer - empire dvd sales - have been very helpful or interested in helping me get my money back.
For The Moment
2008-04-18 - I loved this movie! Russell Crowe again gives a memorable performance. The picture as a whole was well done and after awhile you were actually living that period of WWII. Again I highly recommend it to all who have never seen it and for those who have it is worth a second look!
Crowe proved early on that he was destined to be a star... 
2008-03-17 - As a huge fan of Russell Crowe I had to research this movie and give it a try. While it is not as polished a movie as it could have been it still brings an adequate amount of charm and heart and makes for a memorable and satisfying cinematic experience.
Crowe stars as Lachlan, a fighter pilot in training who happens to fall in love with a married woman. That woman is Lill, a lonely yet charming woman whose husband is away at war. Lachlan and Lill's relationship is one kept secret from those around them for it is a forbidden love. As the two of them come closer together, Lachlan's inevitable departure to war creeps up on them with stinging effect.
`For the Moment' is not a film that I would consider masterful or brilliant. There have been plenty of romantic war epics that have surpassed this without even really trying, but what `For the Moment' has going for it is, like I mentioned, pure charm and heart. A pre-stardom Crowe is magnetic here. While this is far from his more polished and mature roles it is one that shows quite gloriously that he's had the ability all along. Christianne Hirt is marvelous as Lill, emoting loneliness and despair as well as a heightened desire and fire when she meets and falls for Lachlan.
Director Aaron Kim Johnston keeps the focus on the budding love affair, so anyone looking for an action filled war film should look the other way. This is not a war film in the literal sense but a film about the war of love and the fact that love takes innocent casualties at will.
I'd recommend `For the Moment' to any fan of Crowe; anyone that wants to see where this action giant came from. Unarguably Crowe has become one of our greatest and most respected working actors, but he didn't just fall from the sky; he has roots. `For the Moment' is one of those roots. It's well worth the money and the time and will prove satisfying to the audience. It's superbly acted and wonderfully constructed. No, it's not perfect and yes there are better films to occupy one's time but `For the Moment' has enough going for it to validate a watch through.
For The Moment
2007-06-26 - Good heartwarming story. I recommend it highly. Russell Crowe's early attempt at acting was a complete success.
