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02/09/1975 Drama, Mystery 1h 47m
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On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock…Some were never to return.

Overview

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

  1. Peter Weir

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Rachel Roberts

    Mrs. Appleyard

  2. Vivean Gray

    Miss Greta McCraw

  3. Helen Morse

    Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers

  4. Kirsty Child

    Miss Dora Lumley

  5. Tony Llewellyn-Jones

    Tom

  6. Jacki Weaver

    Minnie

  7. Anne-Louise Lambert

    Miranda St. Clare

  8. Karen Robson

    Irma Leopold

  9. Jane Vallis

    Marion Quade

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A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2021-03-08
_**Several females suddenly go missing in southeast Australia in 1900**_

When the students & staff of a girl’s school outside Melbourne take an outing to Hanging Rock on Valentine’s Day in 1900, three girls and a teacher mysteriously go missing. What happened to them?

Directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975) is an artsy psychological mystery that seems timeless. The style is akin to movies like “Days of Heaven” (1978), “The Secret Garden” (1993) and “The Virgin Suicides” (1999). If you like those movies you�...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$460,000.00

Revenue
$5,125,000.00

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