Sunday Too Far Away
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Sunday Too Far Away is an Australian feature film which was directed by Ken Hannam
and released in 1975. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance
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 a shearer's wife, 'Friday night 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.
Ken Hannam
Ken Hannam was an Australian film and television director.-Career:Born in Melbourne, the eldest of three boys, Hannam lived in his youth in Sydney and was educated at Wollaroi College in New South Wales. He worked in Australian radio and television, then moved in 1968 to England...
and released in 1975. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance
Australian New Wave
The Australian New Wave was an era of resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema...
which occurred during that decade.
Sheep station
A sheep station is a large property in Australia or New Zealand whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or south-west of the country. In New Zealand the Merinos are usually in the high country of the South...
in the Australian outback
Outback
The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia, term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas. The term "the outback" is generally used to refer to locations that are comparatively more remote than those areas named "the bush".-Overview:The outback is home to a...
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
Jack Thompson (actor)
Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society...
plays the knock-about Foley, a heavy drinking gun shearer (talented professional sheep shearer
Sheep shearer
A sheep shearer is a worker who uses -blade or machine shears to remove wool from domestic sheep during crutching or shearing.-History:...
), 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 a shearer's wife, 'Friday night too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away'.
Sunday Too Far Away won three 1975 Australian Film Institute
Australian Film Institute
The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
awards: Best Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Box Office
Sunday Too Far Away grossed $1,356,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $7,946,160 in 2009 dollars.External links
- Sunday Too Far Away at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Sunday Too Far Away - The National Film & Sound Archive, Australian Government
- Australian Screen
- Murdoch University Reading Room
- British Film Institute
- Cinephilia
- The New York Times
- Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection