Love and Other Catastrophes Movie Review 1995

Short, low-budget first feature from 23-year-old Croghan engagingly focuses on 24 hours in the lives of five confused college students. Film students Alice (Garner) and Mia (O'Connor) need a third roommate for their new apartment. Danni (Mitchell), Mia's girlfriend, is upset that Mia doesn't want them living together, while Alice is eyeing potential boyfriends, including shy med student Michael (Day) and womanizing Ari (Dyktynski). Meanwhile, both Alice and Mia try to cope with various academic frustrations.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 76 minutes.
Originally from Australian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Campus Capers, Female Bonding, Lesbians, Generation X, A Day in the Life. . .

Screenplay

Emma-Kate Croghan, Yael Bergman, Helen Bandis

Cast

Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Matt(hew) Day, Radha Mitchell, Matthew Dyktynski, Suzi Dougherty, Kim Gyngell

Cinematography

Justin Brickle

Director

Emma-Kate Croghan

Music

Oleh Witer

Producer

Stavros Efthymiou, Bruce Charlesworth, Frank Cox, Fred Bergman, Beyond Films Limited, 20th Century Fox Searchlight