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My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian period drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes. Based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Miles Franklin, it follows a young woman in rural, late-19th-century Australia whose aspirations to become a writer are impeded first by her social ...
Aug 17, 1979 · My Brilliant Career: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb. A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Gillian Armstrong
- 1979-08-17
Growing up in the Australian outback, creative and headstrong Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of becoming a famous writer despite long odds and the objections of her family.
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- Gillian Armstrong
- G
- Judy Davis
My Brilliant Career - 40th Anniversary. A brand-new digital restoration of #GillianArmstrong’s award-winning adaptation of Miles Franklin’s classic novel, featuring Judy Davis in her movie ...
- 2 min
- 7.1K
- Madman Films
A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence. Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her grandmother, and aunt announces she'll never marry and plans on having a career instead.
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The heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is an imaginative, headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia in the 1890s. Drought and a series of poor business decisions reduce her family to a subsistence level, her father begins to drink excessively, and Sybylla struggles to deal with the monotony of her life.