Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975 107 min ★ 7.2 Drama, Mystery

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

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Cast

Rachel Roberts

Mrs. Appleyard

Vivean Gray

Miss Greta McCraw

Helen Morse

Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers

Kirsty Child

Miss Dora Lumley

Tony Llewellyn-Jones

Tom

Jacki Weaver

Minnie

Anne-Louise Lambert

Miranda St. Clare

Karen Robson

Irma Leopold

Jane Vallis

Marion Quade

Christine Schuler

Edith Horton

Details

Director

Peter Weir

Screenplay

Cliff Green

Tagline

"On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock…Some were never to return."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$460,000

Revenue

$5,125,000

Production

McElroy & McElroy, Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd., British Empire Films Australia, Australian Film Commission, South Australian Film Corporation

Reviews

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Wuchak

March 8, 2021

★ 7/10

_**Several females suddenly go missing in southeast Australia in 1900**_ When the students & staff of a girl’s school outside Melbourne take an outing to Hanging Rock on Valentine’s Day in 1900, three girls and a teacher mysteriously go missing. What happened to them? Directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975) is an artsy psychologic...