Australia
– Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ..
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, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
26 Nov 2008
English, Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.
Baz Luhrmann
Stuart Beattie (screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (screenplay), Ronald Harwood (screenplay), Richard Flanagan (screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (story)
Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 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.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 35 nominations.
$49,420,849
20th Century Fox