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Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975 · Film · 107 min

  • Drama
  • Mystery

Plot

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

About Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Cliff Green, based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay. The film stars Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver. The plot involves the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community. Picnic at Hanging Rock was a commercial and critical success, and helped draw international attention to the then-emerging Australian New Wave of cinema. In 2011, Green called it "Australia's most loved movie". In 1996 it was voted the best Australian movie of all time in a poll by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the NFSA.

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Cast

  • Rachel RobertsMrs. Appleyard
  • Dominic GuardMichael Fitzhubert
  • Helen MorseMlle. de Poitiers
  • Jacki WeaverMinnie
  • Anne-Louise LambertMiranda
  • Christine SchulerEdith
  • Karen RobsonIrma
  • Margaret NelsonSara
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