Directed by Bruce Beresford • 1976 • Australia
Starring John Hargreaves, Jeanie Drynan, Ray Barrett
“Mr. And Mrs. Donald Henderson request your presence at a little get-together.” When you mix a left-wing teacher, a loudmouthed sex maniac, a mild-mannered accountant, a failed philosopher, a promiscuous teenager, a frustrated wife, a drunken pornographer, a temperamental artist, and an arrogant dentist with a lot of booze together on the night of the 1969 Australian federal election anything can—and will—happen at a raucous shindig to remember. Adapted by David Williamson from his own hit stage play and featuring an A-list cast of Aussie greats, DON’S PARTY is a button-pushing, cunningly incisive snapshot of a country at a decisive sociopolitical moment that plays like an Australian New Wave answer to SHAMPOO.
Directed by Peter Weir • 1977 • Australia
Starring Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, Gulpilil
Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violatin...
Directed by Bruce Beresford • 1977 • Australia
Starring Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, John Waters
Told with a delicate blend of satire and nostalgia, this award-winning coming-of-age tale introduces one of Australian literature’s most beloved characters, Laura Tweedle Rambothan (Susannah Fowle), ...
Directed by Phillip Noyce • 1978 • Australia
Starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood
This sweeping look at Australian social change traces nearly a decade of upheaval from the late forties through the midfifties, as experienced by two daredevil newsreel cameramen and brothers (Bill Hun...
