Directed by:
Gillian ArmstrongScreenplay:
Eleanor WitcombeCinematography:
Donald McAlpineComposer:
Nathan WaksCast:
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Julia Blake, David Franklin, Gerry Duggan, Tony Hughes, Zelda Smyth, Robert Austin, Max Cullen, Simone Buchanan (more)Plots(1)
Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence above all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life’s work she has imagined for herself. Suffused with generous humour and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Judy Davis
Australia
Best movies:
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Barton Fink (1991)
Swimming Upstream (2003)
Sam Neill
UK
Best movies:
Jurassic Park (1993)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
The Piano (1993)
Wendy Hughes
Australia
Best movies:
Paradise Road (1997)
Donor (1990) (TV movie)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Julia Blake
UK
Best movies:
Father (1990)
Cactus (1986)
The Dressmaker (2015)
David Franklin
Australia
Best movies:
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004) (TV movie)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Conversations with Other Women (2005)
Gerry Duggan
Ireland
Best movies:
Goldfinger (1964)
Ride a Wild Pony (1975)
The Servant (1963)
Tony Hughes
Best movies:
Babe (1995)
Puberty Blues (1981)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Zelda Smyth
Best movies:
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Milada (2017)
Robert Austin
Best movies:
The Bunker (1981) (TV movie)
Invasion (1980) (TV movie)
Swoon (1992)
Max Cullen
Australia
Best movies:
The Great Gatsby (2013)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
In a Savage Land (1999)
Simone Buchanan
Australia
Best movies:
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Patrick (2013)
Boar (2017)
Amanda Pratt
Best movies:
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Mark Spain
Australia
Best movies:
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Bush Christmas (1983)
Harlequin (1980)
Alan Hopgood
Australia
Best movies:
A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Roadgames (1981)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Peter Whitford
Australia
Best movies:
Phar Lap (1983)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Robert Grubb
Australia
Best movies:
Phar Lap (1983)
Gallipoli (1981)
Paradise Road (1997)