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Movie “Australia” is all about Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman smooching in a downpour, Judy Garland singing ”Over the Rainbow,” and costumes of such brink–of–World War II colonial loveliness as to make Vogue editors swoon?
Story is something like this : 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 she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world’s most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Fair work has been done by cast in movie but overall direction is weak. Theme of movie is good but it has not been shown well.
Story :
Hugh Jackman’s drover is a freelance cowboy who makes his living steering thousands of heads of cattle across hundreds of miles of outback. Jackman is such a hunky, brawling, independent example of his breed that the fella’s simply called…the Drover. Except when he’s addressed as Mr. Drover by the milk-pale aristocratic English lady Sarah Ashley, played by Kidman with a widening of eyes and puffing of lips to express exasperation.
Departing from useless, upper-class London dressed in amusingly inappropriate couture, Lady Sarah arrives at the end of the world to check on her errant husband and Faraway Downs, the cattle station he has been running. Soon, she finds him dead. It’s a mere hop, skip, and kangaroo jump of an hour or three before Lady Sarah herself whips Faraway Downs into shape and confronts the estate’s villainous operations manager (David Wenham), who secretly works for the greedy tycoon (Bryan Brown) who owns all the other cattle in the area. She becomes the protector of a half-aboriginal, half-white little boy named Nullah (newcomer Brandon Walters), whose grandfather, with his fiery eyes and flamingo-like, one-legged poses, is a tribal magic man called King George (David Gulpilil, famous since Walkabout). She absorbs into her long bones the mysterious wild power of the contradictory country she now calls home.
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Movie Information
Also Known As: Untitled (Luhrmann/Australian Epic)
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: An Australian outback epic that takes place from the mid-1930s leading up to the Japanese bombing of the tropical northern city of Darwin in World War Two.
Genres: Romance and War
Running Time: 2 hr. 35 min.
Release Date: November 26th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language.
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution
Production Co.: Bazmark Films, Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Film Partners
Studios: 20th Century Fox
Filming Locations: Australia
Produced in: Australia
Movie Cast
Directed by Baz Luhrmann; written by Mr. Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan; director of photography, Mandy Walker; edited by Dody Dorn and Michael McCusker; music by David Hirschfelder; production designer, Catherine Martin; produced by Mr. Luhrmann, G. Mac Brown and Catherine Knapman; released by 20th Century Fox. Running time: 2 hours 35 minutes.
WITH: Nicole Kidman (Lady Sarah Ashley), Hugh Jackman (the Drover), David Wenham (Neil Fletcher), Bryan Brown (King Carney), Jack Thompson (Kipling Flynn), David Gulpilil (King George) and Brandon Walters (Nullah).
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