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The Proposition

Cast

Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston View All

Crew

Nick Cave (Screenplay), John Hillcoat (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 6th, 2005

Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns and gives him 9 days to kill his older dangerous psychopathic brother, or else they'll hang his younger mentally slow brother on Christmas Day.

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The lilting children's song that begins the film becomes a leitmotif that plays over any scenes set on the home front and is thus liable to become annoying, while the music that plays as Pearce heads further into the outback isn't much better; though it is mainly minimal and instrumental, instances ....

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