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My Brilliant Career

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My Brilliant Career

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The spirited eldest daughter of an impoverished farming family struggles with the chafing limitations of her Victorian upbringing, the expectation that she should marry and her desire to become a writer. Australian period drama based on the novel by Miles Franklin, starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes and Robert Grubb

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Angie Errigo

A key film in the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s, this sensitive story of a fiercely independent young woman with aspirations to be a writer in male-dominated late-19th-century Australia made international reputations for director Gillian Armstrong and her remarkably assured 23-year-old star, Judy Davis. With Sam Neill and Wendy Hughes providing attractive support, the one drawback is being expected to believe any woman in her right mind would turn down Neill's charming, wealthy suitor. (That said, this is based on a true story.) Armstrong's subsequent sojourn in Hollywood never yielded a film as engaging and passionately felt as this, her brilliant feature debut.

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Cast

rolenameSybylla MelvynJudy DavisHarry BeechamSam NeillAunt HelenWendy HughesFrank HawdonRobert GrubbMr McSwatMax CullenAunt GussiePatricia Kennedy

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rolenameDirectorGillian Armstrong

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Theatrical distributor

Mainline Pictures Ltd

Released on

1980-01-24

Languages

English

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour

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