| Sunday Too Far Away | |
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| Directed by | Ken Hannam |
| Produced by | Gil Brearley, Matt Carroll |
| Written by | John Dingwall |
| Starring | Jack Thompson Robert Bruning Reg Lye Max Cullen Peter Cummings John Ewart |
| Studio | South Australian Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1975 |
| Running time | Australia: 90 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Sunday Too Far Away is an Australian feature film which was directed by Ken Hannam and released in 1975. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance which occurred during that decade.
The film is set on a sheep station in the Australian outback in 1955 and its action concentrates on the shearers' reactions to a threat to their bonuses and the arrival of non-union labour.
Acclaimed for its understated realism of the work, camaraderie and general life of the shearer, Jack Thompson plays the knock-about Foley, a heavy drinking gun shearer (talented professional sheep shearer), and while he makes a play for the station owner's daughter Sheila (Lisa Peers), the film is a presentation of various aspects of Australian male culture and not a romance; the film's title itself is reputedly the lament of a shearer's wife, 'Friday night too tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away'.
Sunday Too Far Away won three 1975 Australian Film Institute awards: Best Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Sunday Too Far Away grossed $1,356,000 at the box office in Australia,[1] which is equivalent to $7,946,160 in 2009 dollars.
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