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Sunday Too Far Away is a 1975 Australian drama film directed by Ken Hannam. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance or the "Australian New Wave", which occurred during that decade.
The film is set on a sheep station in the Australian outback in 1955 and its action concentrates on the shearers' reactions to a threat to their bonuses and the arrival of non-union labour.
Acclaimed for its understated realism of the work, camaraderie and general life of the shearer, Jack Thompson plays the knock-about Foley, a heavy drinking gun shearer (talented professional sheep shearer), and while he makes a play for the station owner's daughter Sheila (Lisa Peers), the film is a presentation of various aspects of Australian male culture and not a romance; the film's title itself is reputedly the lament of an Australian shearer's wife: "Friday night [he's] too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away".
Sunday Too Far Away won three 1975 Australian Film Institute awards: Best Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Original Release
06/26/1975
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jack Thompson | Foley |
Max Cullen | Tim King |
Robert Bruning | Tom |
Jerry Thomas | Basher |
Peter Cummins | Arthur Black |
John Ewart | Ugly |
Sean Scully | Beresford |
Reg Lye | Old Garth |
Laurie Rankin | Station hand |
Lisa Peers | Sheila Dawson |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jack Thompson | Foley |
Max Cullen | Tim King |
Robert Bruning | Tom |
Jerry Thomas | Basher |
Peter Cummins | Arthur Black |
John Ewart | Ugly |
Sean Scully | Beresford |
Reg Lye | Old Garth |
Laurie Rankin | Station hand |
Lisa Peers | Sheila Dawson |
Gregory Apps | Michael Simpson |
Doug Lihou | Rousie |
Ken Weaver | Quinn |
Curt Jansen | Wentworth |
Phyllis Ophel | Ivy |
John Charman | Barman |
Ken Shorter | Frankie Davis |
Tony Clay | Undertaker |
Hedley Cullen | Mailman |
Graeme Smith | Jim the learner |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Gil Brealey | Producer |
Matt Carroll | Producer |