Peter Weir

Director, Actor

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Peter Weir Short Film Collection (1969-1972): Dir. Peter Weir; Four early shorts from one of Australia's greatest directing talents; "Homesdale", "Three to Go", "Three directions in Pop Music", "Incredible…
Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Terry Camilleri, John Meillon; This no–budget wonder marked the auspicious debut of Peter Weir. It's a delirious black comedy in which an outback community ambush passing…
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse…; Simply one of the best Australian films ever, this elegant mystery, based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, centres around the disappearance of several…
Last Wave, The (1977): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, David Gulpilil; A provocative and eerie tale of prophecy and doom sees attorney Richard Chamberlain plagued by horrific visions when assigned to defend a group of…
Plumber, The (1979): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Judy Morris, Ivor Kants; An obscure, one–of–a–kind telemovie from Peter Weir concerning a middle–class couple whose apartment is besieged by an…
Gallipoli (1981): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Mark Lee; Well–crafted, intoxicating depiction of the Gallipoli landings in WWI with a boyish Mel Gibson and Mark Lee as youthful idealists who enlist as…
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt…; Multi–layered, vivid yarn posits Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as foreign officials in 1965 Indonesia at the time of the communist coup.…
Witness (1985): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer…; Cop Harrison Ford goes undercover at an Amish community after one of their young witnesses a murder. Consummate Hollywood thriller, quite brilliantly…
Mosquito Coast, The (1986): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix; A knock–out thriller about the woes of obsession with Harrison Ford as the idealistic inventor who drags his family into the thick of the South…
Dead Poet's Society (1989): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke…; Robin Williams is perfect as an a maverick English teacher at a private high–school for boys, where his passion for poetry profoundly…
Green Card (1990): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell; English language debut for Gerard Depardieu as a French musician who enters into a marriage–of–convenience with a stranger (Andie…
Fearless (1994): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini…; Jeff Bridges plays an air–crash survivor whose new–lease on life leads him to believe he is invulnerable to death. Multi–layered,…
Truman Show, The (1998): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Natascha McElhone…; A brilliantly conceived script by expat–Kiwi whizz–kid Andrew Niccol (GATTACA) finds consummate direction in the hands of esteemed…
Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World (2003): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy; Vivid sea–chase yarn, set during the Napoleonic Wars, with Crowe commanding the screen as the sympathetic captain of a British frigate…
Way Back, The (2010): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell…; A small group of multi–national prisoners escape a Siberian Gulag and make their way across five countries on foot in this survivalist epic…

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