Australia 2008 • Color • MPAA Rating: N/A • 20th Century Fox Director: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, AUSTRALIA centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. With his new film, Luhrmann is painting on a vast canvass, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance, drama, adventure and spectacle.

Action, Drama, Adventure, Western, Romantic, War

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