Jessica (2004)
3h 16m
Running Time
July 18, 2004Release Date
Plot.
The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
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Cast & Crew.
Sam Neill
Richard Runche
Leeanna Walsman
Jessica Bergman
Lisa Harrow
Hester Bergman
Tony Martin
Joe Bergman
Oliver Ackland
Jack Thomas
Megan Cooper
Meg Bergman
Megan Cooper
Meg Bergman
John Howard
George Thomas
Peter Andrikidis
Director
Peter Yeldham
Writer
Wil Traval
Billy Simple
Mark Rogers
Additional Still Photographer
Natasha Wanganeen
Mary Simpson
Ghita Fiorelli
Online Editor
Joseph Pickering
Director of Photography
Kerry Walker
Mrs. Baker
Details.
Wiki.
Jessica is an Australian television miniseries based on the historical novel by Bryce Courtenay. Originally broadcast by Australia's Network Ten in 2004 and set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalised. Jessica won a 2005 Logie award for best mini-series or telemovie, plus two awards at the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival - one of them for the direction of Australian Peter Andrikidis.
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