• Director(s)

    PETER WEIR

  • Production Year

    1975

  • Release date

    21/02/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Mystery

  • Approx. running minutes

    108m

  • Cast

    Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray

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Picnic At Hanging Rock

unsettling scenes, sexual violence references, suicide references

Three young women and a tutor at a nineteenth century private school for girls go missing in mysterious circumstances in this brooding, psychologically complex 1975 Australian drama. …

Three young women and a tutor at a nineteenth century private school for girls go missing in mysterious circumstances in this brooding, psychologically complex 1975 Australian drama.

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violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

injury detail

suicide and self-harm

sexual violence and sexual threat

  • Director(s)

    PETER WEIR

  • Production Year

    1975

  • Release date

    21/02/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Mystery

  • Approx. running minutes

    108m

  • Cast

    Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray

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unsettling scenes, sexual violence references, suicide references
Classified Date:
16/12/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
British Film Institute
violence
There is infrequent mild violence.
threat and horror
An unsettling tone pervades the film as the disappearance of the women - which is never explained - and speculation about what happened to them has psychological effects on various characters. A scared young woman screams as her friends move out of her sight into what she perceives as danger. A group of young women assail one of the missing school students who has been recovered, insisting hysterically that she must know something of what happened to the others. Amidst the speculation there are claims that the women were abducted.
language
There is mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘bugger’), as well as very mild terms (‘Jesus’, ‘hell’).
sex
There are occasional mild sex references.
discrimination
There is brief sexist behaviour as a young man wolf-whistles at a group of young women and makes comments about their figures to a male friend. An indigenous man is referred to as an 'Abo', and a woman is called 'fat'. The film does not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour.
injury detail
People are seen with cuts and bruises on heads and hands following accidents.
suicide and self-harm
It is implied that people have taken their own lives.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is discreetly expressed speculation that missing women were victims of molestation or sexual violence, but a doctor who has examined those who have been recovered gives assurances that this is not the case and that they are “intact”.
alcohol and smoking
People drink alcohol, sometimes becoming drunk. There is also smoking, which reflects the historical period in which the film is set.
additional issues
There is mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘bugger’), as well as very mild terms (‘Jesus’, ‘hell’). There are mild sex references. There is mild injury detail. There is brief sexist behaviour as a young man wolf-whistles at a group of young women and makes comments about their figures to a male friend. An indigenous man is referred to as an 'Abo', and a woman is called 'fat'; the film does not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour. There are scenes of smoking in a historical context.
Classified Date:
19/07/1976
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
G.T.O. Films
unsettling scenes, sexual violence references, suicide references
Classified Date:
28/03/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Second Sight Films
threat and horror
An unsettling tone pervades the film as the disappearance of the women - which is never explained - and speculation about what happened to them has psychological effects on various characters. A scared young woman screams as her friends move out of her sight into what she perceives as danger. A group of young women assail one of the missing school students who has been recovered, insisting hysterically that she must know something of what happened to the others. Amidst the speculation there are claims that the women were abducted.
suicide and self-harm
The body of a woman is found in a greenhouse with the implication that she had fallen through its roof from a height intending to kill herself. There is no injury detail. It is also implied that another character took their own life in an off-screen incident.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is discreetly expressed speculation that the missing women were victims of molestation or sexual violence, but a doctor who has examined those who have been recovered gives assurances that this is not the case and that they are “intact”.
additional issues
There is mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘bugger’), as well as very mild terms (‘Jesus’, ‘hell’). There are mild sex references. There is mild injury detail. There is brief sexist behaviour as a young man wolf-whistles at a group of young women and makes comments about their figures to a male friend. An indigenous man is referred to as an 'Abo', and a woman is called 'fat'; the film does not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour. There are scenes of smoking in a historical context.
Classified Date:
21/11/2007
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Second Sight Films
Contains mild horror, threat, language and sex references
Classified Date:
05/11/2007
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Second Sight Films
Classified Date:
06/06/2003
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Pathe Distribution
Paperwork Remarks:
Abridged version
Classified Date:
18/02/1999
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Polygram Video Ltd
Classified Date:
03/12/1993
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Electric Pictures
Classified Date:
05/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
British Film Institute
Classified Date:
04/04/2023
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Second Sight Films

  • Classified date

    16/12/2024

  • Language

    English