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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, or simply The Drover's Wife, is a 2021 Australian revisionist Western film directed, written, and co-produced by Leah Purcell in her feature directorial debut.
Outside a remote 1890s Australian frontier town, a woman caring for her home and family in her husband's absence forms a connection with a fugitive. Watch trailers & learn more.
Nov 9, 2021 · Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson is an inspired and compelling re-imagining of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife, a short story originally published in The...
May 5, 2022 · The Drover’s Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson is a reimagining of Leah Purcell’s acclaimed play and Henry Lawson’s classic short story. A searing Australian Western with love, family, protection, survival, truth and racism at its heart, it asks: how far do you go to protect the ones you love?
Feb 17, 2022 · ON RELEASE MAY 13 modernfilms.com/droverswifeDRAMA | ENGLISH | 109 MINIn 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson (Leah Purcell) and her children struggle to sur...
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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson occasionally struggles to cohere, but writer-director-star Leah Purcell offers a unique, compelling perspective on historic myths. Read...
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May 2, 2022 · The story is centred on the heavily pregnant Molly Johnson (Purcell), whose husband is away droving cattle, leaving her on their remote Snowy Mountains homestead to care for their four children. When she meets Yadaka (Rob Collins), an Aboriginal man on the run from police, both are forced to confront some long-held secrets.
