Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: producers, Hal McElroy, Jim McElroy ; screenplay by Cliff Green ; directed by Peter Weir
Contributors: Roberts, Rachel, 1927-1980, actor; Gray, Vivean, actor; Morse, Helen, 1948- actor; Lindsay, Joan Weigall, Lady
Edition: Dual-format edition.
Series: Criterion collection -- 29; Criterion collection -- 29.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781604658422
Subjects: Drama; Boarding schools; Missing persons; Film adaptations; Boarding school students; Girls' schools
Other titles: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Motion picture)
Description: Set at the turn of the twentieth century, follows the aftermath of the disappearance of three students and a young teacher from an all-girls school while on a school picnic.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay.

DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby digital 5.1, anamorphic wide screen 1.78:1.

Features: extended interview with Weir; new piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2003 with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members; new introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The new biographical dictionary of film; A recollection ... Hanging Rock 1900 (1975), an on-set documentary hosted by Lovell and featuring interviews with Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and source novel author Joan Lindsay; Homesdale (1971), an award-winning black comedy by Weir; trailer.

Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Anthony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver, Frank Gunnell, Anne Lambert, Karen Robson, Margaret Nelson.

MPAA rating: PG.

Blu-ray disc is made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned.