Sunday Too Far Away

Name: Sunday Too Far Away
Genre: Drama
Released: 1975-06-26
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, Robert Bruning

19751975
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1h 34m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

890

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Drama

A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

890

YOUR RATING

Director
- Ken Hannam
Writer
- John Dingwall(original screenplay)
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Awards
- 5 wins & 1 nomination

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Trivia
A two-and-a-half (approximately 150 minute) version existed before its Sydney Film Festival Premiere. A two hour director's cut played at this Sydney Film Festival on 1 June 1975. The final release cut runs just over an hour and a half (94 minutes). Australian film historian, critic and curator Paul Brynes has said: "Thirty minutes of the original film were cut by producers, and some critics suggest the removal of important subplots might have diminished the story. The 'director's cut' has never been made available to the public."

Quotes
Ivy: I don't serve scabs

Alternate versions
A two hour director's cut played at the Sydney Film Festival, 1 June 1975.

Connections
Featured in The Making of 'Sunday' (1975)

Soundtracks
SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY
Written by Bob Ellis
Performed by Jack Thompson

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One of Austalia's best films

This movie would definitely make my personal top ten. Along with "The Odd Angry Shot", "The Club", and "Newsfront" this is one of the highlights of that golden age of Aussie movies made in the mid 70s to the mid 80's.

Jack Thompson is magnificent as the chief shearer (I think the technical term is "Ringer") of an itinerant gang of shearers who arrive at sheep station to work. The wonderful photography captures the heat and dust of the landscape as well as the harsh living and working conditions.

The main dramatic event in the movie centres around a strike by the shearers and the owners attempts to break it using scab labour. In this aspect it gives a nod to the political agenda portrayed in "Newsfront". There are some great character roles by minor players, the sub plot involving the awful cook is a little gem. Which pretty much sums up the film, not a major epic or Hollywood rubbish, just a good honest well made movie that bears repeated viewing.

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