![]() ![]() It was made by SAFC Productions, the production arm of the South Australian Film Corporation, which had a particular talent for period films. But with present-day Sydney only bookending the story and the rest of the action set in the 1870s, the overwhelming impression is that it is a period film. Technically, Playing Beatie Bow is a fantasy film because it features time travel. ![]() Abigail develops feelings for Judah Bow (Peter Phelps), giving her a better understanding of her mother’s desire to patch up her broken relationship with Abigail’s father, a source of conflict between them at the start of the film. The family identified Abigail as the stranger by the antique collar on the dress she was wearing. When the gift was first given to the family by elves several generations back, it came with a prophecy that a stranger would come and restore its strength. Beatie’s Granny (Moya O’Sullivan) has a gift for seeing into the future and for healing, but is worried that her powers are waning and that they have not been passed on to her grandchildren. The girl, Beatie Bow (Mouche Phillips), takes Abigail into her family where they seem to be expecting her, calling her ‘the stranger’. When troubled teenager Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) encounters a mysterious young girl while playing in a park in modern day Sydney (circa 1985), they both find themselves transported back to the 1870s. ![]()
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