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In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years.
Original Release
09/20/1990
US Release
05/19/1991
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Kerry Fox | Janet Frame / Janet |
Alexia Keogh | Young Janet / Janet Frame as a child |
Karen Fergusson | Janet Frame as a teenager / Teenage Janet |
Iris Churn | Mother |
Jessie Mune | Baby Janet / Janet Frame as a baby |
Kevin J. Wilson | Father |
Francesca Collins | Baby Jane |
Melina Bernecker | Myrtle |
Mark Morrison | Bruddie Frame as child / Young Bruddie |
Katherine Murray-Cowper | Young Isabel |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kerry Fox | Janet Frame / Janet |
Alexia Keogh | Young Janet / Janet Frame as a child |
Karen Fergusson | Janet Frame as a teenager / Teenage Janet |
Iris Churn | Mother |
Jessie Mune | Baby Janet / Janet Frame as a baby |
Kevin J. Wilson | Father |
Francesca Collins | Baby Jane |
Melina Bernecker | Myrtle |
Mark Morrison | Bruddie Frame as child / Young Bruddie |
Katherine Murray-Cowper | Young Isabel |
Mark Thomson | Billy Delaware |
Brenda Kendall | Miss Botting |
Paul Moffat | Dis McIvor |
Blair Hutchison | Bully Boy |
David McAuslan | Bully Boy |
Ailene Herring | Teacher |
Faye Flegg | Doctor |
Carla Hedgeman | Young Poppy |
Timothy Bartlett | Gussy Dymock |
Richard Mills | Talent Scout |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bridget Ikin | Producer |
John Maynard | Producer |