Playing Beatie Bow (film)
Playing Beatie Bow | |
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Directed by | Donald Crombie |
Written by | Peter Gawler Irwin Lane |
Based on | Ruth Park's novel |
Produced by | Jock Blair Bruce Moir John Morris |
Starring | Imogen Annesley Peter Phelps Mouche Phillips Nikki Coghill Moya O'Sullivan |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Simpson |
Edited by | Andrew Prowse |
Music by | Garry McDonald / Laurie Stone |
Production company | |
Distributed by | CEL Film Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | A$4.4 million[1] |
Box office | A$97,036 (Australia) |
Playing Beatie Bow is a 1986 Australian
Plot summary
Beatrice May "Beatie" Bow, a young Victorian-era girl, is summoned from the past to contemporary 1986 Sydney by children, including eight-year-old Natalie, chanting her name. Sixteen-year-old Abigail Kirk, whose mother Kathy was looking at rekindling her relationship with her estranged husband, accidentally follows Beatie back to September 1873, in
After returning to her own time, Abigail finds that her friends Justine and her daughter, eight-year-old Natalie, are descendants of the Bow family and learns the fate of the Bow children. Beatie never married or had children, though she achieved her childhood dream of becoming a scholar and became the longtime headmistress of the Fort Street School and died in the 1920s. Gibbie, despite being convinced that he would be the one to die young, married an undertaker's daughter and lived until 1940 when he was 76 and was actually Justine's great grandfather. Abigail had saved Gibbie from a fire that all but destroyed the Bows' home located above Samuel Bow's confectionery shop, which was what she as the "Stranger" was sent to do thus preserving "The Gift" for future generations of the Bow family. Judah, whom Abigail had fallen in love with, married Dovey and they had a daughter in 1874, though the child died before her first birthday while Dovey died in 1919. Natalie then tells Abigail that Judah died in a shipwreck just outside of Hobart-Town at the age of 22, thus becoming the great sacrifice. Abigail then meets Justine's younger brother Robert who bears a striking resemblance to Judah and the pair fall in love, while Natalie has assumed the Bow family "gift" allowing her to become a talented piano player.
Cast
- Imogen Annesley – Abigail Kirk
- Peter Phelps – Judah Bow / Robert Bow
- Mouche Phillips – Beatrice May "Beatie" Bow
- Nikki Coghill – Dorcas "Dovey" Tallisker
- Moya O'Sullivan – Granny Bow
- Don Barker – Samuel Bow
- Trent Graham – Punchy
- Lyndel Rowe – Kathy Kirk
- Barbara Stephens – Justine Crown
- Damian Janko – Gilbert Samuel "Gibbie" Bow
- Phoebe Salter – Natalie Crown
- Su Cruickshank – Madam
- Edwin Hodgeman – Sir
- Grant Piro - Pino
Production
Playing Beatie Bow is directed by
Most of the film was shot in
Box office
Playing Beatie Bow grossed $97,306 at the box office in Australia,[4] which is equivalent to $212,127 in 2009 dollars. However the film was popular on video.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b Greg Kerr, "Playing Beatie Bow", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p203
- ^ TV Tropes, Cosi rated PG
- ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p340
- ^ "Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- ^ with Donald Crombie", Signet, 18 December 1998| Retrieved 16 November 2012
External links
- Playing Beatie Bow at IMDb
- Playing Beatie Bow – Rotten Tomatoes
- Playing Beattie Bow at Oz Movies