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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
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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   32,568 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Stuart Beattie (screenplay) and
Baz Luhrmann (screenplay) ...
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Contact:
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Release Date:
26 November 2008 (USA) more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 18 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(60 articles)
Foreign Box Office Booming
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 9 July 2009, 1:17 PM, PDT)

Jackman Torn About How To Respond To Gay Rumours
 (From WENN. 22 April 2009, 2:55 PM, PDT)

User Reviews:
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Untitled Baz Luhrmann Project (Australia) (working title)
Austrália (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Australia (Argentina) (Peru) [es]
Австралия (Bulgaria: Bulgarian title) [bg]
Австралия (Russia) [ru]
Austrália (Slovakia) [sk]
Austrálie (Czech Republic) [cs]
Austraalia (Estonia) [et]
Australia (Japan: English title) [en]
Australia (Greece) [el]
Australie (Canada: French title) [fr]
Australija (Croatia) [hr]
Ausztrália (Hungary) [hu]
Avustralya (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language.
Runtime:
165 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Stock footage from Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) was used for the Japanese attack. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Sarah Ashley fired Neil Fletsher, she talks to Kipling Flynn. He takes a new bottle of rum, but when you see him opening it, it is empty. It is also a different kind of bottle, the empty one is more straight, while the full one is more round. more
Quotes:
Lady Sarah Ashley: Nullah, I wanted to extend my condolences...
Nullah: Go away.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "At the Movies: (2008-11-26)" (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Waltzing Matilda more

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59 out of 100 people found the following review useful.
Uneven, hulking monster of a film, 25 January 2009
5/10
Author: NonSequitur_1 from Australia

This film struggled, throughout its epic length, to stay upright. Unfortunately at the end it stumbled and fell like a pile of bricks.

It tried to juggle so much, but in the end, turned out to be too little. The film starts like a corny slapstick comedy, turns into a romantic fantasy, then into an outback adventure, then into a war movie, a heartfelt drama, a comment on the stolen generation, a comment on racism... etc, etc. It's just too much. Yes, it's supposed to be an epic, but things like this need to be handled with finesse. Unfortunately, it isn't in this case. The themes were too muddled, the script too stretched - it's a mess. The characters are cardboard cutouts, the acting is over the top and cheesy, the pacing is off, the bizarre use of Somewhere Over the Rainbow... It's just a broken film.

Being an Australian, I did hope that this movie would be alright, but it turned out to be almost 3 hours of wankery that disgracefully cost our taxpayers over $40m.

On a more positive note, on the whole it wasn't BORING, and it was aesthetically and aurally pleasing - even though it made use of countless, shameless green screen shots which were simply unnecessary.

There was ONE great scene in the film, and that's when Hugh Jackman and his Aboriginal friend enter the ruined pub. That was absolutely excellent. Too bad the rest of the film couldn't live up to that in the slightest.

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