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Picnic at Hanging Rock

  • 19751975
  • PGPG
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
38K
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POPULARITY
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
38K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
6,490
835
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Peter Weir
    • Writers
      • Joan Lindsay(novel)
      • Cliff Green(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Rachel Roberts
      • Anne-Louise Lambert
      • Vivean Gray
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Peter Weir
    • Writers
      • Joan Lindsay(novel)
      • Cliff Green(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Rachel Roberts
      • Anne-Louise Lambert
      • Vivean Gray
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 265User reviews
    • 165Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 4 wins & 12 nominations total

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    Picnic At Hanging Rock
    Trailer 4:49
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    Anne-Louise Lambert, Karen Robson, Christine Schuler, and Jane Vallis in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
    Anne-Louise Lambert, Karen Robson, and Jane Vallis in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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    Anne-Louise Lambert in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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    Top cast

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    Rachel Roberts
    Rachel Roberts
    • Mrs. Appleyard
    Anne-Louise Lambert
    Anne-Louise Lambert
    • Miranda St Clare
    • (as Anne Lambert)
    Vivean Gray
    • Miss Greta McCraw
    Helen Morse
    Helen Morse
    • Mlle. de Poitiers
    Kirsty Child
    • Miss Lumley
    Tony Llewellyn-Jones
    Tony Llewellyn-Jones
    • Tom
    • (as Anthony Llewellyn-Jones)
    Jacki Weaver
    Jacki Weaver
    • Minnie
    Frank Gunnell
    • Mr. Whitehead
    Karen Robson
    Karen Robson
    • Irma
    Jane Vallis
    Jane Vallis
    • Marion Quade
    Christine Schuler
    Christine Schuler
    • Edith
    Margaret Nelson
    • Sara Waybourne
    Ingrid Mason
    • Rosamund
    Jenny Lovell
    Jenny Lovell
    • Blanche
    Janet Murray
    • Juliana
    Vivienne Graves
    • Pupil
    Angela Bencini
    • Pupil
    Melinda Cardwell
    • Pupil
    • Director
      • Peter Weir
    • Writers
      • Joan Lindsay(novel)
      • Cliff Green(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Executive producer Patricia Lovell admits to being genuinely afraid of Hanging Rock. In an interview, she explained that she has only gone back to Hanging Rock once since the shooting. It was 10 years later in 1985 and Lovell said she got so frightened at the location she left almost immediately. She refuses to go back to this day.
    • Goofs
      The movie takes place in February 1900, 11 months before the Australian colonies federated and 11 years before the creation of the Australian Capital Territory within New South Wales. When Mrs Appleyard addresses the gathered pupils to communicate the merciful deliverance of their classmate Irma, the NSW map behind nearby Miss Lumley clearly shows the existence of the ACT (defined in red).
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Miranda: What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream.

    • Alternate versions
      The Director's Cut released in 1998 (available on Criterion DVD) is seven minutes shorter than the original version.
    • Connections
      Edited into Picnic at Wolf Creek (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 2nd Movement
      Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    User reviews265

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    This picnic tastes great but is unfulfilling.
    Confession: I don't know WHAT I think of this movie! Not only that, I had to go to IMDb's user comments to find a person or persons to TELL ME what I think of this movie. None did. I read all 45 of the user comments (reviews) and I STILL don't know what I think of this movie. That's how enigmatic this movie is. To me, anyway.

    I did learn one thing, however, from reading these 45 preceding user reviews. A very great many of these user-reviewers are some of the keenest and most astute moviegoers whom I've ever encountered. They know things about this movie and have picked up things from it which are completely over my non-perceptive head.

    Example: One user-reviewer, an English gentleman, I believe, obviously did his doctoral thesis on this movie. He knows things about it that even Peter Weir (the director) doesn't know. A number of others did their masters on it. Many of the latter refer to Miranda (Anne-Louise Lambert), one of the girls who disappeared, in terms of her being a sort of virginal Botticelli-like angel. While I do agree that Miranda is a most ethereal character, whenever she would appear in a scene, "Botticelli" was not the first word to jump into my mind. But that's just me.

    Much is made by many of these perceptive and sharp user-reviewers of the girls' awakening feelings of sexuality and of the phallic symbolism of Hanging Rock to the girl climbers. Oh. I was just wondering: Where'd the girls go? What happened to them?

    One of the many puzzling aspects to the story of this movie, one on which no one seems to agree, is.....is it true? At first I thought it was. Then I thought it wasn't. Now, I have no idea! And the user-reviewers are of no help on this, politely at odds amongst themselves on the story's veracity. I'd like to believe that the movie and novel which preceded it are based on a true incident. No, not because I would wish anything bad to have happened to these adventurous, yet innocent, young girls some 101 years ago. I wish it were true only because it would be but one more "event" to add to the great mystery that we know as life. A mystery, a question, to which no one has the answer.

    Listen to me! I sound like I know what I'm talking about. Which I don't! Especially about this movie. In the final analysis, this movie left me generally unfulfilled. There is much in it that is worthy of praise, first and foremost the moviemaking skills of Peter Weir. But when credits rolled, something was missing. I felt as if I'd just eaten a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, having enjoyed every single bite, then, upon arising from the table, felt my stomach completely empty. A feeling stranger than strange.

    Anyone viewing this film for the first time must be prepared for a movie in which all the various and loose plot ends do NOT get all tied up by the film's denouement. If one is so prepared, one may come away from it more fulfilled than was I. "Tastes great," unfortunately, was as far as I could get with it.

    One sad note: At the movie's conclusion, Mrs. Appleyard (Rachel Roberts) arrived at a fate not much unlike one arrived at by Ms. Roberts herself just five short years after the movie's release. Just as art often imitates life, so, too, in this case, did life imitate art.
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    • Jul 26, 2001

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 2, 1979 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Australia
    • Official sites
      • Criterion Collection (United States)
      • Criterion Forum 2 [United States]
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Picknick am Valentinstag
    • Filming locations
      • Mount Diogenes, Hanging Rock Reserve, Woodend, Victoria, Australia
    • Production companies
      • British Empire Films Australia
      • The South Australian Film Corporation
      • The Australian Film Commission
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • A$440,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $49,582
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $27,492
      • Jun 28, 1998
    • Gross worldwide
      • $82,361
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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