My Brilliant Career
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- Critics Consensus 85%
- HD
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- Drama
- 1 Hour 40 Minutes
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence above all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life’s work she has imagined for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit.
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For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence above all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life’s work she has imagined for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit.
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- Rent $3.99
- Buy $14.99
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Ratings and Reviews
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Cast & Crew
- Cast
- Judy Davis
- Sam Neill
- Wendy Hughes
- Robert Grubb
- Max Cullen
- Aileen Britton
- Peter Whitford
- Patricia Kennedy
- Director
- Gillian Armstrong
- Producers
- Margaret Fink
- Screenwriter
- Eleanor Witcombe
Information
- Studio
- The Criterion Collection
- Genre
- Drama
- Released
- Copyright
- © 1979 Margaret Fink Films Pty. Ltd Sydney Asutralia
Languages
- Primary
- English (Australia) (Stereo)
- Additional
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English (United States)