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The Shiralee (1987)

Overview

Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He’s a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he’s all she’s got, and at the end, she’s all he’s got.  —David Kinne

Length 95 minutes

Actors

Lewis Fitz-Gerald | Bryan Brown | Noni Hazlehurst | Julie Hamilton | Ned Manning | Rebecca Smart | Simon Chilvers | Lorna Lesley | Reg Evans | Madeleine Blackwell