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Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20207/10
King George angry at them white fellas. King George say them white fella bad spirit. Must be taken from this land. Australia is directed by Baz Luhrmann and Luhrmann co-writes the screenplay with Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, and Richard Flanagan. It stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown and Brandon Walters. It took a bit of a kicking from the pro critics upon release, where the consensus is that at a cost of $130 million this intended sprawling epic is an ambitious flop. For the record at the box office it practically made double its outlay, so certainly wasn't a financial flop. It's a mixed bag for sure, a film of two differing halves. First half sends Kidman's English aristocrat to Northern Australia after she inherits the sprawling Faraway Downs Ranch. Here she finds herself in the middle of a dirty take over plot and reluctantly makes a working pact with Jackman's stock-man Drover. Seeds are sewn here for a bit of a screwball relationship, all while a cattle feud brews and the Aborigines at the ranch - particularly young Nulllah (Walters) - are in fear of racial tension. Pic then flip-flops into a love story, a war story (as the Japanese attack Darwin)
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Cast
- Nicole KidmanLady Sarah Ashley
- Hugh JackmanThe Drover
- Essie DavisKatherine
- David WenhamNeil Fletcher
- Bryan BrownKing Carney
- David GulpililKing George
- John JarrattSergeant
- Shea AdamsCarney Boy
- Nathin Art ButlerCarney Boy
- John WaltonCarney Boy
Crew
- Baz LuhrmannDirector
- Stuart BeattieScreenplay
- Ronald HarwoodScreenplay
- Richard FlanaganScreenplay
- Mandy WalkerDirector of Photography
- David HirschfelderOriginal Music Composer
- Michael McCuskerEditor
- Dody DornEditor
- Catherine MartinProducer
- Paul WattersProducer
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