The Shiralee ( Macaulay's Daughter )

The Shiralee (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Macaulay's Daughter
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
189 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
George Ogilvie

Written By:
Tony Morphett
D'Arcy Niland

Actors:
Bryan Brown ..... Macauley
Noni Hazlehurst ..... Lily
Rebecca Smart ..... Buster
Lewis Fitz-Gerald ..... Tony
Lorna Lesley ..... Marge
Ned Manning ..... Jim
Madeleine Blackwell ..... Lucy
Simon Chilvers ..... Thaddeus
Julie Hamilton ..... Bella
Reg Evans ..... Luke
William Zappa ..... Donny
Frank Gallacher ..... Beauty
Norman Kaye ..... Desmond
Ray Meagher ..... Polkadot

Synopsis:

The 1988 Australian miniseries Shiralee was, like the 1957 film of the same name, based on a bestselling novel by D'Arcy Niland. A shiralee is Australian slang for the bundle carried about by a swagman (a tramp or thief). In this instance, the 'bundle' is the 10-year-old daughter of an Australian migrant laborer whose wife has left him. The laborer then takes his daughter on a long, 'bonding' trek through the Outback. The effortless expertise of Bryan Brown as the swagman is matched by little Rebecca Smart as his daughter. For its American public TV debut in 1991, The Shiralee was shown in its two-hour version, which was released theatrically in some areas as Macauley's Daughter.

Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.

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