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The Getting Of Wisdom [1977]

Award-winning coming-of-age tale introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters, Laura Tweedle Rambothan, and chronicles her stormy passage through the sedate halls of an expensive Melbourne finishing school, and her refusal to fit the expected role of a demure Victorian young lady.

Starring
Barry Humphries
John Waters
Kerry Armstrong
Sigrid Thornton

Director
Bruce Beresford