Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to ...
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Title: The Getting of Wisdom (1977)
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1 win & 4 nominations.
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Susannah Fowle | ... | Laura Tweedle Rambotham |
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Dorothy Bradley | ... | Miss Hicks |
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Patricia Kennedy | ... | Miss Chapman |
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Sheila Helpmann | ... | Mrs. Gurley |
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Candy Raymond | ... | Miss Zielinski |
| Terence Donovan | ... | Tom McNamara | |
| Barry Humphries | ... | Rev. Strachey | |
| John Waters | ... | Rev. Shepherd | |
| Kerry Armstrong | ... | Kate | |
| Sigrid Thornton | ... | Maria | |
| Alix Longman | ... | Chinky | |
| Julia Blake | ... | Isabella Shepherd | |
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Kay Eklund | ... | Mrs. Rambotham |
| Max Fairchild | ... | Mr. O'Donnell | |
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Jan Friedl | ... | Miss Snodgrass |
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Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham (Susannah Fowle). Written by Anonymous
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There is hope, there is hurt . . . there is loneliness, there is love . . . there is wanting and there is joy in . . . The Getting of Wisdom See more »Genres:
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(uncredited)
Music by Robert Schumann
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Director Bruce Beresford first acquired the film rights to 'The Getting of Wisdom' novel by Henry Handel Richardson in 1974, about three to four years prior to this movie being made and released. See more »Quotes
Lilith: [Laura enters her assigned bedroom in the school and meets Lilith Gordon, who spies Laura holding a cake tin, which Lilith grabs and opens and sees glace cherries on the cake. She commences to eat them] Ohh, scrummy!See more »
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Referenced in Thrills and Nuclear Spills: The Making of 'The Chain Reaction' (2005) See more »Soundtracks
Kinderszenen Op. 15, No. 1 Von Fremden Ländern Und Menschen(uncredited)
Music by Robert Schumann
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25 August 1977 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
A bölcsesség elnyerése See more »Company Credits
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Nine Network Australia, Southern Cross Films Pty. Ltd., The Australian Film Commission See more »
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What a real feeling of Australia this film has. It is like a documentary, unapologetically showing us teenage girls as bullies and snobs. Their cruelty is matched only by an underlying innocence. The film does not hate them, but shows them for what they are - all too human. This includes the heroine in her struggles to stand out. She does because she has a talent for music, nurtured by her long-suffering mother. Great supporting cast and background detail. Another remarkable fact is that the same director and production team who made all those ocker comedies had the versatility to adapt a literary classic.