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The Farm

2001 · 1 season

A slow-burning, emotionally heavy drama about a farming family crushed by debt and drought, grounded in quiet desperation and small-town stakes.

Created by
Kate Woods
Genres
Drama
Starring
Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels, Marton Csokas
Overview
After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid.

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Created by
Kate Woods
Genres
Drama
Starring
Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels, Marton Csokas
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • survival
  • class
  • power
  • grief
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Kate Woods
Written by
David Phillips, Judith Colquhoun
Starring
Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels, Marton Csokas, Simon Chilvers, Melissa Jaffer, Jamie Croft, Yael Stone, Mark Priestley
Cinematography
Joseph Pickering
Length
1 seasons, 3 episodes
Network
ABC TV
Country
Australia
Languages
English

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