Review of Hammers Over the Anvil

I read over some of the comments written about this movie prior to actually seeing it myself and after seeing the movie I wonder if some of these people saw the same movie I did. I kept reading about the movie and hearing about the nudity and the sex scenes between Grace and East and about Russell Crowe never the main character himself. The movie is not about Russell Crowe's Character, East it is about Alan and the coming of age of a crippled boy and how he deals with his handicap, girls, maturity, family, friends and sex. East is his idol and actually plays a small role in this film. Personally I think this was a very well done film about Alan with Russell (East) and Charlotte (Grace) playing great supporting roles. I would recommend this movie to anyone interested in a very well done and at times humorous film about a boy coming of age. And for those people concerned about the brief skinny dipping scene in the beginning. You can not see everything on Russell Crowe and the one sex scene between Russell (East) and Charlotte (Grace) is nothing more than you would see on any of the daytime Soaps.