Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

PG

Released Feb 2, 1979

1h 50m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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In the early 1900s, Miranda (Anne Lambert) attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress (Rachel Roberts) 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 (Vivean Gray) have disappeared mysteriously.

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Critics Consensus

Visually mesmerizing, Picnic at Hanging Rock is moody, unsettling, and enigmatic -- a masterpiece of Australian cinema and a major early triumph for director Peter Weir.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

The film’s mystery still shimmers.

Rated: 5/5

Feb 21, 2025

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

The “readings” are endless, the mood impossibly eerie and the legacy untouchable.

Rated: 5/5

Apr 27, 2023

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Joe Clay

Times (UK)

Extraordinary, haunting classic...

Oct 26, 2022

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

While the plot remains tantalisingly just out of reach, the people and places are vivid and unusually involving.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 19, 2025

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Bethany Lola

Loud and Clear Reviews

Picnic at Hanging Rock continues to mystify audiences 50 years after its release, still posing the question: “What really happened on Valentine’s Day 1900?”

Rated: 4/5

Feb 11, 2025

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

A brilliantly ambiguous film about ambiguity.

Rated: 10/10

Dec 24, 2023

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Xoxo J

best filming not bad lah

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/01/25

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Sandi W

filmnya recommended untuk kalian tonton

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/01/25

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Fitri D

Ini ide yang sangat bagus ya, terus menambah karya perfilm an Indonesia. Yang didalamnya terdapat beragam film, Terus berkembang ya dunia perfilm an, The best pokoknya

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/28/25

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ranita s

Good, fun and explore

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/28/25

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Ana D

This is one of my all time favorite movies, it has lingered in my mind since I saw it at 19 in 1979. Peter Weir made the most amazing movies, always a sense of mystery, wonder, and fear, of the unknown power of nature and how we cannot control it. It is the theme of Man Against Nature that you learned about in your literature classes, but visual and filled with a cinematic beauty that takes us away into the mystery nature in our lives. A classic along with his The Last Wave, must see films.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/28/25

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Sandra F

I may be a little biased having grown up not far and visited there a lot since I was a child but something stayed with me, changed me so I came to realise, in the way you view things.. much like the movie. That music is in my mind, my soul.. as I close my eyes now, it's like I'm there with that feeling.. hearing that music each time just takes my breath away because he got it all so unbelievably right, something that comes from being there, being one of the lucky ones who felt small but let it's beauty, mystique and history.. sorry no, it's story, just seep into every morsel of you. I can't tell you why I have 14 various copies on DVD or 4 on VHS or why I've seen it 49 separate times or why that was necessary.. but it is.. like the movie.. so necessary and so necessary to see. You'll be grateful you did and you won't forget it. Atmospherically perfect,as close as you can get as a translation for those watching, yet you'll feel as though it's watched you. To this very day, each time I see it, I get lost in it.. as time becomes irrelevant almost. Enjoy Thank you Peter Weir..

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/01/24

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Synopsis

In the early 1900s, Miranda (Anne Lambert) attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress (Rachel Roberts) 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 (Vivean Gray) have disappeared mysteriously.

Director: Peter Weir
Producer: Jim McElroy
Distributor: Atlantic Releasing Corporation
Production Co: Australian Film Commission
Rating: PG
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 2, 1979, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Jan 31, 2025
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 21, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $31.2K
Runtime: 1h 50m

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