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Waiting (1991)

Waiting
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Length 1h35
Rating67% 3.388223.388223.388223.388223.38822

Waiting is a 1991 Australian film directed by Jackie McKimmie. At the AFI Awards Fiona Press won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award and the film was nominated in 4 other categories. Jackie McKimmie was awarded the OCIC Award - Honorable Mention in the Venice Film Festival.

Friends meet at a farm house to await the birth of a baby.



^ Philippa Burne, "Waiting", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p 325

^ IMDb - awards

Actors

Noni Hazlehurst

(Clare)Deborra-Lee Furness

(Diane)Frank Whitten

(Michael)Ray Barrett

(Frank)
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