---
title: 'My Brilliant Career (1979)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Gillian Armstrong'
released: '1979-08-17'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Australia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/my-brilliant-career-1979'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079596/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# My Brilliant Career (1979)

1979 · 96 min · Drama, Comedy, Romance · Australia


## Synopsis

My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian period drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes. Based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Miles Franklin, it follows a young woman in rural, late-19th-century Australia whose aspirations to become a writer are impeded first by her social circumstance, and later by a budding romance.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Gillian Armstrong](https://cinepixo.com/people/gillian-armstrong)
- **Screenplay:** [Eleanor Witcombe](https://cinepixo.com/people/eleanor-witcombe)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Nathan Waks](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathan-waks)
- **Producer:** [Margaret Fink](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-fink)
- **Director of Photography:** [Donald McAlpine](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-mcalpine)

## Cast

- [Patricia Kennedy](https://cinepixo.com/people/patricia-kennedy)
- [Alan Hopgood](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-hopgood)
- [Julia Blake](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-blake)
- [David Franklin](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-franklin)
- [Gordon Piper](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-piper)
- [Simone Buchanan](https://cinepixo.com/people/simone-buchanan)
- [Carole Skinner](https://cinepixo.com/people/carole-skinner)
- [Tony Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-hughes)
- [Judy Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/judy-davis)
- [Sam Neill](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-neill)
- [Wendy Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/wendy-hughes)
- [Robert Grubb](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-grubb)
- [Max Cullen](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-cullen)
- [Aileen Britton](https://cinepixo.com/people/aileen-britton)
- [Peter Whitford](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-whitford)

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