Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
June 1, 1975Release Date
Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
June 1, 1975Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently Sunday Too Far Away is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Jack Thompson
Foley
Max Cullen
Tim King
Robert Bruning
Tom
Jerry Thomas
Basher
Peter Cummins
Arthur Black
John Ewart
Ugly
Sean Scully
Beresford
Reg Lye
Old Garth
Gregory Apps
Michael Simpson
Lisa Peers
Sheila Dawson
Doug Lihou
Rousie
Ken Weaver
Quinn
Ken Hannam
Director
Curt Jansen
Wentworth
John Dingwall
Writer
John Dingwall
Writer
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Sunday Too Far Away is a 1975 Australian drama film directed by Ken Hannam. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance or the "Australian New Wave", 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 an Australian shearer's wife: "Friday night [he's] 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.