The principal decided to take the girls on Valentine's Day to a picnic field trip in a place called Hanging Rock. During the outing, things seem to turn into a dangerous path while a few students and teachers disappear without a trace, and their absence frustrates all things everywhere.
The story provides Mr. Weir with material for a kind of Australian horror-romance that recalls Nathaniel Hawthorne's preoccupation with the spiritual and moral heritage of his own New England landscape.
San Francisco Chronicle
January 01, 2000
One of the most hauntingly beautiful mysteries ever created on film.
