Caddie (1976)

Directed by

Donald Crombie

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young mother in 1920s Sydney raises her two children alone after her husband leaves her. She works as a barmaid to survive through the hardships of the Great Depression.

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What happens

Caddie is a 1976 Australian biopic drama film directed by Donald Crombie and produced by Anthony Buckley. Released on 1 April 1976, it is representative of the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade. Set mainly in Sydney during the 1920s and 1930s, including the Great Depression, it portrays the life of a young middle class woman struggling to raise two children after her marriage breaks up. Based on Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, a partly fictitious autobiography of Catherine Beatrice "Caddie" Edmonds, it made Helen Morse a local star and earned Jacki Weaver and Melissa Jaffer each an Australian Film Institute Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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