3 Movies Starring Wendy Hughes

Newsfront

Newsfront

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-07-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (507 Reviews)

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

David Elfick

Bob Ellis (screenplay)

Philippe Mora

Phillip Noyce (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie-going public.

My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-08-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (2421 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Miles Franklin (novel)

Eleanor Witcombe

Fullplot:

Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career instead. She does attracts the interest of several suitors. The bumbling Englishman Frank Hawdon has only been in Australia for three months and proposes that she return home with him as his wife. She rejects him out of hand telling her grandmother that she does not love him. Then there's her neighbor, the handsome young farmer Harry Beecham, who she is attracted to and eventually accepts his proposal. Time passes however and in the end refuses to marry him while she seeks to become a writer.

The Man Who Sued God

The Man Who Sued God

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (4163 Reviews)

Director:

Mark Joffe

Cast:

Writer:

John Clarke (original screenplay)

Patrick McCarville (story)

Don Watson

Fullplot:

Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself. The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna Redmond (Davis).

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