This film was originally a two-hour television biography about the early years of Australian feminist Jill-Ker-Conway. She was from a British family and grew up in the Outback of New South Wales in the 1930's. Her mother Eve was very domineering and becomes more so after the death of Jill's father. The beginning years were an intense struggle to make their sheep ranch profitable but Eve becomes wealthy later on due to wise investments. Despite her financial success and the struggles now behind her, Eve turns to alcohol for comfort. She forces Jill to go out into the world and make a place for herself. Eve also wanted her older son the supervise the ranch but he was killed and her younger son was pushed to take this job. Jill falls in love with Alec, an American mining engineer but he is married. Later he decides to leave his marriage but Jill learned first hand how difficult it is to lose a father and she can't let this happen to another child.
I thought this was very good. Eve needed to be very strong to survive her situation but her husband basically gave in because of the constant loss. This caused Eve to need to be even stronger but this drove her too far and she went over the edge in another way. She also pushed her children very hard which caused more loss. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
97 min, Drama directed by Brendan Maher with Juliet Stevenson, Richard Roxburgh, Katerine Slattery, Tim Guinee, John Howard, Alex Tomasetti, Alexandra Galwey, Bernard Curry, Sam Dunn, Andrew Keating.
Note: Blockbuster 2 1/2*, imdb 7.0 out of 10, 63% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
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