First-Time Viewing

Australia

Release Date:November 26, 2008

Running Time:165 min

Genres:Adventure, Drama, Romance

Director

Cast

Nicole Kidman Hugh Jackman Essie Davis David Wenham Bryan Brown David Gulpilil John Jarratt Shea Adams Nathin Art Butler John Walton Nigel Harbach Eddie Baroo

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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 by Japanese forces firsthand.

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