The Sunday Telegraph London, June 29th, 2003
Rain (15). The stunning coastland of New Zealand's north island is the setting for this atmospheric tale of family crisis, adultery and coming of age, one of those films on which a sense of foreboding clings like sweat; there may be little rain in evidence, but the metaphorical storm clouds are omnipresent. A family - mum, dad, 13- year-old daughter Janey and her younger brother Jim - are in summer residence at their holiday home. Their days are spent fishing and swimming, the evenings at parties on the beach. It should be idyllic. It isn't. The main problem is that mum is a total lush who ca...
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