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Lisa is a suburban schoolgirl in Sydney. In the summer of 1959 she is waiting on her final school exam results, and she hopes to go on to the University of Sydney. She takes a summer job at Goode's, a big department store, where she sells alongside Fay, Patty and Magda. Fay distrusts immigrants at first. Patty wishes her husband would notice her. Magda comes from Slovenia and brings Lisa into her circle of European friends, showing her a life beyond the one she knows at home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ladies in Black (2018)
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- Ladies in Black was the film that almost got away from Bruce Beresford and his friend and producer Sue Milliken, as funding agencies kept rejecting it. The X-factor was co-producer Allanah Zitserman, a producer of Russian Doll and founder of the Dungog Film Festival, whom Beresford said got them the money.
- Ladies in Black was twenty years in the making: writer-director Bruce Beresford was university friends with novelist Madeleine St John and had promised to adapt her novel ever since first reading it.
