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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.
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. Forced by money ...
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Australia, 1890s. A young woman, Sybylla Melvyn, is stuck in a rural area but dreams of a career in the arts, ideally as a writer. Her ambitions are at odds with her family's aims for her and with broader society's views on a woman's path in life. She meets a young man and the two are soon close.
My Brilliant Career. For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance.
Apr 26, 2020 · My Brilliant Career (1979 Australia 100 mins) Prod Co: Greater Union Organisation, Margaret Fink Productions, New South Wales Film Corporation Prod: Margaret Fink Dir: Gillian Armstrong Scr: Eleanor Witcombe Phot: Don McAlpine Mus: Nathan Waks Ed: Nicholas Beauman Art Dir: Neil Angwin. Cast: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb ...
