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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.
- (4.7K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Gillian Armstrong
- 1979-08-17
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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 circumstance, and later by a budding romance.
- AU$890,000
- Nathan Waks
- 17 August 1979
- Margaret Fink
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.
Jul 25, 2008 Full Review Michael Bronski Gay Community News (Boston) My Brilliant Career is a wonderful movie that details the life of a young woman growing up in turn of the century Australia.
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- Gillian Armstrong
- G
- Judy Davis
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. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance ...
My Brilliant Career (1979) ← Back to main. Cast 36. Judy Davis. Sybylla Melvyn Sam Neill. Harry Beecham Wendy Hughes. Aunt Helen Robert Grubb ...
