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 occured during that decade. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

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. Australian term for a large farm or Australian ranch, usually in the outback, whose main activity is the raising of sheep, for their wool and meat. ... A typical outback scene, somewhere north of Coober Pedy. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Acclaimed for its understated realism of the work, cameraderie 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 Austalian 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.' Image:Cliegg lars. ... A sheep shearer is a worker who uses blade or machine shears to remove the wool from sheep. ...

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. The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was established in 1958. ...

Other Jack Thompson films include:

• Original Sin
• Breaker Morant
• Caddie
• Flesh & Blood

REDIRECT Original Sin (Movie) ... Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian feature film, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring British actor Edward Woodward in the title role. ... Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie, released in 1976, and belonging to the Australian film renaissance which occured during that decade. ... Flesh & Blood (1985) is a film directed by Paul Verhoeven. ...

See also

• List of Australian films

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External link

• Sunday Too Far Away at the Internet Movie Database