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Australia

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis, David Wenham View All


Crew

Stuart Beattie (Screenplay), Ronald Harwood (Screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (Screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (Director) View All

Release: Nov. 18th, 2008
Runtime: 2 hours, 45 minutes
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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In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land s...

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If you want a more genuine account of the tragedy of Australia’s ‘stolen generation, watch [I]Rabbit Proof Fence[/I]. If you want an entertaining adventure/romance/drama, you could do worse than watch [I]Australia[/I]..
mark f
Yet, even so, this "historical" film about what happened in Australia, both concerning the "Lost Generation" of aborigine children and WWII, still delivers enough "old-fashioned entertainment", especially in the romance department (my wife says it's "VERY romantic"), that it's certainly watchable fo....


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