Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock…Some were never to return.
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
- Year: 1975
- Country: Australia
- Genre: Drama, Mystery
- Studio: McElroy & McElroy, Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd., British Empire Films Australia, Australian Film Commission
- Keyword: australia, based on novel or book, orphanage, girls' boarding school, based on true story, coming of age, hanging rock, atmospheric, valentine's day, mysterious, 1900s
- Director: Peter Weir
- Cast: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver
