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Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Cliff Green adapted the novel into a screenplay. The film stars Rachel Roberts , Dominic Guard , Helen Morse , Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver .
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Directed by Peter Weir. With Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child. During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
- (42K)
- Drama, Mystery
- Peter Weir
- 1979-02-02
The original 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' trailer which screened ahead of the film’s Australian cinema release in August 1975. The NFSA celebrated the 40th anniv...
- 2 min
- 296.6K
- National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)
Based on the acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is a stirring chronicle of the disappearance of an intimate group of women from an all-female college during a St. Valentine's Day outing and the event's lingering aftermath.
Aug 2, 1998 · Reviews. Picnic at Hanging Rock. Drama. 115 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 1975. Roger Ebert. August 2, 1998. 7 min read. On a drowsy St. Valentine’s Day in 1900, a party of girls from a strict boarding school in Australia goes on a day’s outing to Hanging Rock, a geological outcropping not far from their school.
One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress (Rachel Roberts) treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called...
- (48)
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
- PG
Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing.
