Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995)

Directors

George Whaley

Cast

Barry Otto, Essie Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Joan Sutherland, Leo McKern, Noah Taylor, Ray Barrett

The story

The film portrays the Rudd family of 'Aussie battlers' in late 19th-century colonial Australia; Dad (McKern) and Mother (Sutherland) Rudd, and their hardworking but somewhat daffy son Dave (Rush). They take up a selection of land and attempt to farm it. The difficulties of the early colonial farming life are portrayed, with its ups and downs, humour and frustrations.

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