Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

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

PG 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.

Directed by Peter Weir · Written by Cliff Green

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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
Margaret Nelson Sara Waybourne
Ingrid Mason Rosamund Swift

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