Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975, PG, 110 min.
Directed by Peter Weir, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Vivean Gray, Margaret Nelson.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show) made this unsettling, atmospheric film early in his career, and it is still one of his most successful projects to date. The movie is an eerie mystery that incongruously occurs in the bright daylight sunshine. During a school outing in 1901 Australia, three schoolgirls and their teacher apparently vanish into thin air and the unsolved event mushrooms into a disturbingly mysterious phenomenon.

This article appears in August 25 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.