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      • The Umbrella Woman (released in some areas as The Good Wife) is a 1987 Australian film directed by Ken Cameron and starring Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward. It also features Steven Vidler and Sam Neill.


      Premise


      The film tells the story of a man and his wife, whose marriage is complicated by a relationship between the man's brother and his wife and his wife's attraction to the manager of the local bar. The setting is pre-war Australia.


      Cast


      Rachel Ward as Marge Hills
      Bryan Brown as Sonny Hills
      Steven Vidler as Sugar Hills
      Sam Neill as Neville Gifford
      Jennifer Claire as Daisy
      Bruce Barry as Archie
      Peter Cummins as Ned Hopper
      Carole Skinner as Mrs. Gibson
      Clarissa Kaye as Mrs. Jackson
      Barry Hill as Mr. Fielding
      Susan Lyons as Mrs. Fielding
      Helen Jones as Rosie Gibbs
      Lisa Hensley as Sylvia
      May Howlett as Mrs. Carmicheal
      Maureen Green as Sal Day
      Gerry Cook as Gerry Day
      Harold Kissin as Davis
      Oliver Hall as Mick Jones
      Sue Ingleton as Rita
      Maurice Hughes as Sgt. Larkin
      Marg Haynes as Greta
      Craig Fuller as Charlie


      Production


      Producer Jan Sharp originally intended her husband, Phillip Noyce to direct, but he went on to make Echoes of Paradise instead, so she hired Ken Cameron. Cameron:

      I was very happy to do it but it was a picture that I think would always be hard to do. It's terribly hard to do Madame Bovary in Australia and it's very hard to graft, say, that European style of melodrama or melodramatically intense view of family and sexual relations on to the Australian landscape. There's something there that refuses to play the game about the Australian country town.


      Box office


      The Umbrella Woman grossed $100,189 at the box office in Australia. The film was not widely seen overseas either. Cameron says the movie hurt his career:

      I think the reason that it didn't work was that there was something very difficult to understand about the relationship between Bryan and Rachel. They were at the height of their public relationship, very well known as a happy couple. It was terribly hard to cast them as a couple who had some unstated problem in their marriage because everything in fact denied that. So it was hard to understand why she would run after the barman when Bryan was there, because Bryan is quite iconic and quite wonderful as an Australian country man... Without wishing Sam Neill away, because I think he's terrific - it might have worked better had Bryan been the barman... I think that this was an example of how you can cast a film with great excitement, get all these wonderful actors but, at the same time, in the very act of casting, you're blighting it or preventing the drama from emerging successfully.


      See also


      Cinema of Australia


      References




      External links


      The Good Wife at IMDb
      The Umbrella Woman at Rotten Tomatoes
      The Umbrella Woman at Box Office Mojo
      The Umbrella Woman at Oz Movies

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