Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Weir
Screenplay by	Cliff Green
Based on	Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Produced by	Hal McElroy Jim McElroy
Starring	Rachel Roberts Dominic Guard Helen Morse Jacki Weaver
Cinematography	Russell Boyd
Edited by	Max Lemon
Production companies	B.E.F. Film Distributors South Australian Film Corporation Australian Film Commission McElroy & McElroy Picnic Productions
Distributed by	B.E.F. Film Distributors
Release date	8 August 1975 (1975-08-08)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A$443,000–480,000[1][2]
Box office	A$5.12 million (Australia)

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Cliff Green adapted the novel into a screenplay. The film stars Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray and Jacki Weaver. The plot involves the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community.

Picnic at Hanging Rock was a commercial and critical success, and helped draw international attention to the then-emerging Australian New Wave of cinema. It is widely regarded as one of the most iconic and defining films of the New Wave. In 1996 it was voted the best Australian movie of all time in a poll by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the NFSA.