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 ...
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| Kerry Fox | ... | Janet Frame | |
| Alexia Keogh | ... | Janet Frame as adolescent | |
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Karen Fergusson | ... | Janet Frame as a teenager |
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Iris Churn | ... | Mother |
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Jessie Mune | ... | Baby Janet |
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Francesca Collins | ... | Baby Jane |
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Melina Bernecker | ... | Myrtle |
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Mark Morrison | ... | Bruddie Frame as child |
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Katherine Murray-Cowper | ... | Young Isabel |
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Mark Thomson | ... | Billy Delaware |
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Brenda Kendall | ... | Miss Botting |
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Paul Moffat | ... | Dis McIvor |
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Blair Hutchison | ... | Bully Boy |
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David McAuslan | ... | Bully Boy |
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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. Success comes when she starts to write novels. Written by Mattias Thuresson
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Release Date:
20 September 1990 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
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Kerry Fox gained two stones (12.7kg) for her role as Janet Frame. She managed this by drinking liters of Coca-Cola, eating packets of chocolate biscuits and going on the pill. See more »Connections
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This is an excellent mini-series that I couldn't stop watching. Based on the true-life story of writer Janet Frame, it provides an insight into a mental health system that further hampered, rather than improved its patients, and shows how one woman managed to get passed this, to become the respected woman New Zealanders now know her as.