A Girl's Own Story

1984

Action / Drama

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IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 926 926

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Plot summary

This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.

Director

Jane Campion Photo
Jane Campion

Top cast

Jocelyn Moorhouse Photo
Jocelyn Moorhouse as Unmarried mother
John Godden Photo
John Godden as Graeme
Katharine Cullen Photo
Katharine Cullen as Little Pam
Jane Edwards Photo
Jane Edwards as Deidre
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243.89 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 26 min
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452.81 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 26 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by IsabelT

Amusing, heartbreaking, and emotionally true

Funny and tragic stories of schoolgirls who maintain a precarious balance between kissing pictures of the Beatles and committing incest, between childhood and adulthood. Beautiful use of space heaters. The print I saw had muddy sound, though, so I had to strain to hear in some parts.
Reviewed by oscaralbert 6 / 10

If the Pilgrims had landed at Ayers Rock . . .

. . . instead of that boulder near Plymouth, the population of Australia doubtless would top 400 million people Today. How is it that the "Aussies" have been such underachievers when it comes to populating the planet? A GIRL'S OWN STORY provides a lot of answers on this subject. Most of the "romantic overtures" depicted in A GIRL'S OWN STORY are of the sort that will not swell anyone's census report. And many of the few births that occur there result from sibling ribaldry. While it's true that America may harbor a few fringe "religious" cults which do a very poor job of explaining "the birds and the bees," Australia behaves as it its entire population is made up of Shakers and Fundamentalists. (If one cannot Shake our some Fun from Sunday School, why matriculate at all?) A GIRL'S OWN STORY may reek of perversity, but at least there's a glimmer of hope amid the final scene of the lady ice skater. IF the Aussies order themselves a shipment of that hot honeymoon flick from "Tonya H.," maybe someday Australian women can join "Nancy K." in exclaiming, "Why me?!"
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