Minnamurra (film)

Minnamurra
Directed byIan Barry
Written byIan Barry
Produced byJohn Sexton
StarringJeff Fahey
Tushka Bergen
Steven Vidler
Shane Briant
Production
companies
Burrowes Film Group
John Sexton Productions
International Film Management Limited
Distributed byHemdale Film Corporation
Hemdale Ginnane Australia Limited
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
92 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$7.3 million[1]
Box officeA$72,462 (Australia)[2]

Minnamurra is a 1989 Australian film about a feisty woman who lives on a country property. It is also known as Outback and Wrangler.

The plot appears to have been inspired by The Squatter's Daughter. David Stratton called it "almost The Man from Snowy River III in terms of plot and character".[3]

  1. ^ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, September 1987 p67
  2. ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2012
  3. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p68