Directed by Glenda Hambly • 1985 • Australia
Starring Noni Hazlehurst, Annie Byron, Alan Fletcher

Built around a dynamic, sympathetic performance from Noni Hazlehurst, this candid, funny, unflinching portrait of the challenges of single parenthood follows Fran, a fiercely loving but troubled mother of three who struggles to provide for her children while also trying to find romantic fulfillment through a relationship with the new man in her life. Primarily a documentarian, Australian director Glenda Hambly infuses this compassionate slice-of-life drama with bracing realism and a keen attention to the systemic flaws that routinely fail society’s most marginalized.