My Brilliant Career (1979)

My Brilliant Career (1979) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Gillian Armstrong

Written By:
Miles Franklin
Eleanor Witcombe

Actors:
Judy Davis ..... Sybylla Melvyn
Sam Neill ..... Harry Beecham
Wendy Hughes ..... Aunt Helen
Robert Grubb ..... Frank Hawdon
Max Cullen ..... Mr. McSwatt
Aileen Britton ..... Grandma Bossier
Peter Whitford ..... Uncle Julius
Patricia Kennedy ..... Aunt Gussie
Alan Hopgood ..... Father
Julia Blake ..... Mother
David Franklin ..... Horace
Marion Shad ..... Gertie
Aaron Wood ..... Stanley
Sue Davies ..... Aurora
Gordon Piper ..... Barman

Synopsis:

Both actress Judy Davis and director Gillian Armstrong made a big splash on the international scene with this charming Australian film that examines late 19th century Australian society from the perspective of a headstrong woman who refuses to follow convention. The film charts the developing self-awareness of Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) as she grows from an insecure tomboy to a self-assured woman. Sybylla wants to be a writer and stuns her family and friends by her insistence on following her dream. Despite the objections of her family acquaintances, she rejects the marriage proposal from the rich Harry Beecham (Sam Neill) to continue going her own way, in spite of the odds stacked against her in a repressive Victorian environment.

The heroine, Sybylla (Davis), a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry played by Niel) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.

In turn-of-the-century Australia, an independent woman tries to make a career as a writer despite pressures to marry.

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