Drama · Mystery
Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock…Some were never to return.
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.
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Top Cast
Rachel Roberts
Mrs. Appleyard
Vivean Gray
Miss Greta McCraw
Helen Morse
Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers
Kirsty Child
Miss Dora Lumley
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Tom
Jacki Weaver
Minnie
Anne-Louise Lambert
Miranda St. Clare
Karen Robson
Irma Leopold
Directed by
Peter Weir
Production
Australian Film Commission
South Australian Film CorporationReviews
Wuchak
7/103/8/2021
_**Several females suddenly go missing in southeast Australia in 1900**_ When the students & staff of a girl’s school outside Melbourne take an outing to Hanging Rock on Valentine’s Day in 1900, three girls and a teacher mysteriously go missing. What happened to them? Directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975) is an artsy psychological mystery that seems timeless. The style is akin to movies like “Days of Heaven” (1978), “The Secret Garden” (1993) and “The Virgin Suicides” (1999). If you like those movies you’ll appreciate this one. While not as compelling as Weir’s future “Dead Poets Society” (1989), there are some obvious parallels. Both movies deal with prep schools that represent the curious constraints of civilization; y
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