2,000 Weeks
Cast & Crew
Tim Burstall
Mark Mcmanus
Jeanie Drynan
Eileen Chapman
David Turnbull
Michael Duffield
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Synopsis
Will Gardiner, a Melbourne journalist, and Jacky Lewis, his mistress, talk about themselves and about the reasons why Will, a married man, will not leave his family to marry Jacky. For a moment, he remembers the time in his boyhood when he saw his mother go away on a ship, leaving him and his father alone. Later, Will goes to the airport to meet Noel Oakshot, a childhood friend who left Australia for England and is now returning to produce a television series. At a party that night, Noel, in the presence of Sarah, Will's wife, bluntly asks Jacky if she is Will's mistress. Though it is Jacky's last night in Melbourne, she admits the truth but spends the night with Noel. Will goes to the hospital to be with his dying father and then bids farewell to Jacky on board ship. When Noel calls Jacky a whore, the two men fight, and Will returns to tell Jacky that he loves her before he is ordered off the ship.
Director
Tim Burstall
Cast
Mark Mcmanus
Jeanie Drynan
Eileen Chapman
David Turnbull
Michael Duffield
Stephen Dattner
Bruce Anderson
Dominic Ryan
Nicholas Mccallum
Anne Charleston
Crew
Noel Arden
David Bilcock Sr.
David Bilcock Jr.
Don Burrows
Tim Burstall
Bob Calder
Magg Calder
Lloyd Coleman
Joan Cooly
Robin Copping
Evelyn Cronk
Jim Davies
Paul Ennis
Jean Frankel
Russell Hurley
George Hurst
Ron Johanson
George Kischowski
Harold Koch
Christa Mayke
John Murray
James Oastler
Patrick Ryan
Patrick Ryan
Rosemary Ryan
Rod Stebbing
Mark Strizic
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Filmed on location in and around Melbourne. Opened in Melbourne in March 1969.
