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Country Life

1994

Michael Blakemore

Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Michael Blakemore ...

5.1

84

Drama. Comedy This Australian drama has been adapted from Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" set in the 20s. It is set in post WW I Australia at a time when the Aussies were getting ready to break away from England. After his father's death, Jack Dickens sacrificed his literary aspirations to run the family farm. He lives in the old farm house with his aged mother and his plain, soft-spoken niece Sally, who was abandoned by her father Alexander Voysey after her ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Country Life' may not be the deepest 'Vanya' I have seen, but it is the funniest, bringing out the play's buried potential for farce as well as tragedy. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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