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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, or simply The Drover's Wife, is a 2021 Australian revisionist Western film directed, written, and co-produced by Leah Purcell in her feature directorial debut.
Watch The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson | Netflix. Outside a remote 1890s Australian frontier town, a woman caring for her home and family in her husband's absence forms a connection with a fugitive. Watch trailers & learn more.
Nov 9, 2021 · Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson is an inspired and compelling re-imagining of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife, a short story originally published in The...
The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson occasionally struggles to cohere, but writer-director-star Leah Purcell offers a unique, compelling perspective on historic myths.
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- Leah Purcell
- Leah Purcell
- Drama, Western
May 5, 2022 · On an isolated property, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson has a secret she must keep buried. While her drover husband is away, she and her children struggle to survive. Molly is confronted by a fugitive Aboriginal man, Yadaka.
Purcell gives the drover’s wife a name, Molly Johnson, and a backstory. Molly ekes out a rugged existence providing for herself and her children while her drunk and violent husband is away droving for much of the year.
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Jun 16, 2021 · The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson only in cinemas May 5 2022 #TheDroversWifeMovie . Molly Johnson’s husband is away droving sheep, leaving her alone to care for...
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