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.

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