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    Movies - 0 to 9 Movies - 1960s 1 Min Read

    2000 Weeks (1969)

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    Young Melbourne journalist Will Gardiner (Scottish actor Mark McManus, later to find fame as DCI Jim Taggart) has interconnected crises on his hands: a clash with his editor; a marital crisis as his mistress, Jackie (Jeanie Drynan) prepares to leave for England; and a dying father (Michael Duffield).

    It is the latter that turns his mind to mortality and the thought that he has 20000 weeks left to go (the interval between the age of 30 and 70).

    Other key characters include Will’s wife, Sarah (Eileen Chapman) and his friend, Noel (David Turnbull) – a self-styled bigshot expatriate who has returned to Melbourne from success in London.

    Tim Burstall wrote and directed the brave but disappointing film which was savaged by critics on its release.

    Will Gardiner
    Mark McManus
    Jackie Lewis
    Jeanie Drynan
    Sarah Gardiner
    Eileen Chapman
    Noel Oakshot
    David Turnbull
    Will’s father
    Michael Duffield
    Sir George Turnbull
    Stephen Dattner
    Rex Stapleton
    Bruce Anderson
    Will as a Boy
    Dominic Ryan
    Young Noel
    Nicholas McCallum
    Will’s Mother
    Anne Charleston

    Director
    Tim Burstall

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