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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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.
1975 · Directed by Peter Weir · 107 min · Drama · Mystery · 19 frames
Tagline
On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock…Some were never to return.
Crew
- Screenplay: Cliff Green
- Cinematography: Russell Boyd
- Edited by: Max Lemon
- Music: Bruce Smeaton
- Produced by: Jim McElroy, Hal McElroy
Cast
- Rachel Roberts as Mrs. Appleyard
- Vivean Gray as Miss Greta McCraw
- Helen Morse as Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers
- Kirsty Child as Miss Dora Lumley
- Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Tom
- Jacki Weaver as Minnie
- Anne-Louise Lambert as Miranda St. Clare
- Karen Robson as Irma Leopold
- Jane Vallis as Marion Quade
- Christine Schuler as Edith Horton
Production
- Country: Australia
- Language: English, French
- Studios: McElroy & McElroy, Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd., British Empire Films Australia, Australian Film Commission
- Budget: $460,000
- Box office: $5,125,000
- Themes: australia, based on novel or book, orphanage, girls' boarding school, based on true story, coming of age, hanging rock, atmospheric, valentine's day, 1900s
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