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My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Eastmancolor Australian drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on the novel of the same name by Miles Franklin.
The film was released in Australia on 17 August 1979, in the United States on 6 October 1979 at the New York Film Festival, and on 1 February 1980 in limited U.S. theaters.
Sybylla (Judy Davis), a headstrong, free-spirited girl growing up in late 19th century Australia, dreams of a better life to the detriment of her work on a country farm. Her parents, upset by her dreams of grandeur, send her to board with her grandmother in hopes of teaching her proper manners and behaviour. She is soon courted by two local men, jackaroo Frank Hawdon (Robert Grubb), whom she ignores, and well-to-do childhood friend Harry Beecham (Sam Neill), whom she grows increasingly fond of.
Sybylla is sent to spend time at the Beecham estate, and her feelings increase toward Harry. She returns to her grandmother's home when Harry is sent on a tour of their properties, with everyone on both estates coyly approving of their romance. Frank attempts to derail the couple through rumours, which leads to increasing tensions between the two. The two take turns attempting to make the other jealous at a ball, leading to Harry's surprise proposal. Sybylla gruffly rejects him, to everyone's surprise. Harry later reveals his rush was to protect Sybylla from his potential financial collapse. Sybylla counters by asking Harry to wait while she discovers herself, and asks him to delay his proposal for perhaps two years.
Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career instead. She does attracts the interest of several suitors. The bumbling Englishman Frank Hawdon has only been in Australia for three months and proposes that she return home with him as his wife. She rejects him out of hand telling her grandmother that she does not love him. Then there's her neighbor, the handsome young farmer Harry Beecham, who she is attracted to and eventually accepts his proposal. Time passes however and in the end refuses to marry him while she seeks to become a writer.
Winner Of Six Australian Academy Awards, Including Best Picture And Best Director This is the film that became a worldwide sensation and remains perhaps the most beloved and acclaimed romantic epic of all time! Oscar-nominee Judy Davis (A PASSAGE TO INDIA, HUSBANDS AND WIVES) made her international breakthrough debut as Sybylla Melvyn, a free-spirited young writer who refuses to conform to societys expectations of how a proper woman should live her life. Sam Neill (JURASSIC PARK, THE PIANO) co-stars as the wealthy suitor who tries to win her restless heart in this Oscar nominated classic directed by Gillian Armstrong (LITTLE WOMEN, STARSTRUCK). Long unavailable in America, MY BRILLIANT CAREER has been fully restored and remastered in High Definition from the original negative, under ...
VHS TRAILER for My Brilliant Career (1979) Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes
A bonus video from the DVD.
Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...
Judy Davis and Wendy Hughes star in this scen from Gillian Armstrong's film My Brilliant Career (1979)
My Brilliant Career at Cannes Film Festival,1979. Gillian Armstrong, Judy Davis and Margret Fink are interviewed for ABC TV.
love's in the air
we're very pleased to be here
to be part of your brilliant career
love's in the air
we're very pleased to be here
to be part of your brilliant career
- more tea, anyone?
still lives and roses
we're mighty pleased to be here