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6.8/10 by 6 users
The Shiralee (1988)
Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
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Release Date:
Sun, Jun 26, 1988
Country: AU
Language: En
Runtime: 95
Country: AU
Language: En
Runtime: 95
Bryan Brown
Macauley
Noni Hazlehurst
Lily
Rebecca Smart
Buster
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Tony
Lorna Lesley
Marge
Ned Manning
Jim
Madeleine Blackwell
Lucy
Reg Evans
Luke
Julie Hamilton
Bella
Simon Chilvers
Thaddeus
Frank Gallacher
Beauty
William Zappa
Donny
Kirrily Nolan
Ruby
Lynette Curran
Hareema
Norman Kaye
Desmond
Warren Coleman
Lucky
Ray Meagher
Polkadot
Daphne Grey
Mrs. MacMillan
Season 1:
After falling from a train in a small town in the Australian outback, Mac, a strong-willed young man, meets Lily, the daughter of the local butcher and decides to stay. A mean trick played by a rival suitor leads to Mac being bundled out of town. On returning six years later, he finds that Lily has married his old friend Jim Muldoon. His own marriage to showgirl Marge has failed and left him with nothing but his stubborn and wilful daughter Buster... his Shiralee.
Mac has returned to Eucla with Buster, looking for a job from Thaddeus, only to find his old boss gravely ill and Lily running the family business. Although strongly attracted to each other, Mac's independence in refusing to work for a woman leads him to take to the road again. He resumes his career as a prize fighter, but leaves after an argument with Beauty. Swallowing his pride he asks Lily for a job, but weeks on the road have taken their toll on Buster
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