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The Shiralee

Where:

South Australia

When:

The 1940s

A Four-foot, Blonde Nuisance...A Drifter Dad...A Love Story — Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got. —David Kinne

Released in 1987 — 95 minutes