Australia

– Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.60 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 45 Minutes
Release Year:
2008
Australia (2008)

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.

Australia (2008) - Trailer

Release Date:

26 Nov 2008

Language:

English, Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Baz Luhrmann

Writer:

Stuart Beattie (screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (screenplay), Ronald Harwood (screenplay), Richard Flanagan (screenplay), Baz Luhrmann (story)

Main Actors:

Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry

Plot:

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.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 35 nominations.

Gross profit:

$49,420,849

Production:

20th Century Fox

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
Metacritic:
53%