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  1. My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian period drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes. Based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Miles Franklin, it follows a young woman in rural, late-19th-century Australia whose aspirations to become a writer are impeded first by her social ...

  2. Aug 17, 1979 · My Brilliant Career: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb. A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.

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    • Biography, Drama, Romance
    • Gillian Armstrong
    • 1979-08-17
  3. Gillian Armstrong's Australian period drama My Brilliant Career (1979) is a beautifully shot romance of passionate and willful characters.

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    • Gillian Armstrong
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    • Judy Davis
  4. My Brilliant Career. For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklins novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance.

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  5. A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence. Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her grandmother, and aunt announces she'll never marry and plans on having a career instead.

  6. The heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is an imaginative, headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia in the 1890s. Drought and a series of poor business decisions reduce her family to a subsistence level, her father begins to drink excessively, and Sybylla struggles to deal with the monotony of her life.

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  8. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life’s work she has imagined for herself.

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