All comments by
Johnny Moronic:
Today,
I'm going to focus on a
trilogy of movies that
starred Wendy Hughes and
were directed by actor Lex
Marinos (recently played
the old Greek father in
The Slap) during the mid
to late 80s.
Remember
Me
(1985)
Remember Me is a
thriller about Jenny
(Wendy Hughes), a woman
who is doing well in
life with a healthy
marriage to Geoff
(Robert Grubb) and has
just started a new job
as a social worker.
Then, she is contacted
by her ex-husband Howard
(Richard Moir), a man
who has been
institutionalised for
the last 9 years and
very much wants her
back, but Jenny is not
having any of it. Except
she agrees to meet him,
and from their, the
seeds are sown and
Howard continues to
infiltrate her life.
When he asks Jenny back
to their old apartment
by the sea, Jenny falls
for Howard once more and
they have sex. Jenny
then rejects Howard, but
this causes mayhem
causing her own mental
history to come back to
haunt her. But, is she
seeing things or is
Howard doing his level
best to have her all for
his own. Solid
made-for-TV thriller
with two very good
performances from the
leads Hughes and Moir
who would also star
together in the next
film An Indecent
Obsession.
Wendy
Hughes (collages
below)
 
An
Indecent Obsession
(1985)
An
Indecent Obsession is a
tawdry melodrama based
on the novel by Colleen
McCullough, cashing in
on the success of The
Thorn Birds. Honour
Langtree (Wendy Hughes)
is a nun being left in
charge of looking after
mental patients at Camp
X at the end of World
War 2. The group has all
sorts of soldiers with
mental issues, but is
dominated by Luce
Daggett (Richard Moir)
who acts with
superiority over the
others. When a new
patient Michael Wilson
(Gary Sweet) is
introduced to the group,
the power dynamic
changes immediately.
Honour develops an
affection towards
Wilson, who seems
'normal', but is haunted
by something that caused
him to kill a fellow
officer. The group of
soldiers notices Honour
favouring Wilson and
this affects Luce and
Neil Parkinson (Jonathan
Hyde) and both have a
thing for Honour and as
the closer we get to why
Wilson is at Camp X, the
closer Honour gets to
Wilson and this will
have a devastating
effect on the camp. This
film is very
melodramatic and with
mental patients
involved, you get all
the overacting that this
usually involves, but
the film seems to handle
mental illness in a time
when little was known
about it quite well.
Wendy Hughes again
dominates and is
perfectly believable in
the lead and is given
solid support by Moir,
Sweet, Hyde and the ever
reliable Bruno Lawrence.
But, it all so
melodramatic and
everyone wants Honour
and this gets a bit
tiresome. And more Bill
Hunter would've been
nice.
Wendy
Hughes (summary
caps below)
 
Boundaries
of the Heart
(1988)
Nothing
to cap from Boundaries
of the Heart, the final
of the Wendy Hughes/Lex
Marinos trilogy. The
1988 film set in the
mining town of
Coolgardie about a
30-something women
(played by Wendy Hughes)
who spends her time
waiting for someone to
take her away from the
town and her overbearing
former cricketer/local
legend father, but it's
looking like it going to
be another forgettable
summer until a new man
from Britain arrives in
town. Yeah, not much to
say about this film,
more melodrama but a bit
of a snorefest, long
forgotten and rightfully
so.
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