The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain ★★½ 2002
Based on the 1989 memoir by historian Jill Ker Conway who was born and raised on a vast and isolated Australian sheep ranch called Coorain. The story, which opens in the early 1940s, deals with Jill's difficult relationship with her stoical mother Eve (Stevenson), who keeps Coorain even after being widowed and moving her family to Sydney. Jill proves to be an exceptional student and excels at university but family tragedies continue to haunt the Kers. 120m/C VHS . AU Juliet Stevenson, Richard Rox-burgh, Katherine Slattery, Alex Tomasetti, Tim Guinee, John Howard, Bernard Curry, Sean Hall; D: Brendan Maher; W: Sue Smith; C: Tristan Milani; M: Stephen Rae. TV
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