Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
3.6 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 30min
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"Sunday Too Far Away" is a 1975 Australian drama film directed by Ken Hannam. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance or the "Australian New Wave", which occurred during that decade. The film is set on a sheep station in the Australian outback in 1955 and its action concentrates on the shearers' reactions to a threat to their bonuses and the arrival of non-union labour. Acclaimed for its understated realism of the work, camaraderie and general life of the shearer, Jack Thompson plays the knock-about Foley, a heavy drinking gun shearer (talented professional sheep shearer), and while he makes a play for the station owner's daughter Sheila (Lisa Peers), the film is a presentation of various aspects of Australian male culture and not a romance; the film's title itself is reputedly the lament of an Australian shearer's wife: "Friday night (he's) too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away". - Actors:
- Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, Robert Bruning, Jerry Thomas, Peter Cummins, John Ewart, Sean Scully, Reg Lye, Laurie Rankin, Lisa Peers, Gregory Apps, Doug Lihou, Ken Weaver, Curt Jansen, Phyllis Ophel
- Directors:
- Ken Hannam
- Writers:
- John Dingwall
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- Australia
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