Sunday Too Far Away

Sunday Too Far Away

Infobox Film
name = Sunday Too Far Away


caption = DVD Cover
director = Ken Hannam
producer = Gil Brearley, Matt Carroll
writer = John Dingwall
starring = Jack Thompson
Robert Bruning
Reg Lye
Max Cullen
Peter Cummings
John Ewart
studio = South Australian Film Corporation
released = 1975
runtime = Australia: 90 minutes
language = English

"Sunday Too Far Away" is an Australian feature film which was directed by Ken Hannam and released in 1975. It belongs to the "Australian Film Renaissance" 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, cameraderie 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 a shearer's wife, 'Friday night 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.

Other Jack Thompson films include

*"Original Sin"
*"Breaker Morant"
*"Caddie"
*"Flesh & Blood"

ee also

*List of Australian films
*South Australian Film Corporation

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073765/ "Sunday Too Far Away"] at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A5;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Sunday Too Far Away - The National Film & Sound Archive, Australian Government]
* [http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/sunday-too-far-away/ Australian Screen]
* [http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/dbase/1997/lantzke.htm Murdoch University Reading Room]
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/52278 British Film Institute]
* [http://www.cinephilia.net.au/show_movie.php?movieid=1851 Cinephilia]
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/47677/Sunday-Too-Far-Away/overview The New York Times]
* [http://www.nfsa.gov.au/the_collection/kodak_collection/the_films/sunday_too_far_away.html Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection]


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