Australia (2008)

Directed by

Baz Luhrmann

Genre

drama film, war film, romance film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 46m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 2,464 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An English aristocrat travels to northern Australia to manage her husband's cattle station. She teams up with a local drover to protect the land and a young mixed-race boy from government authorities.

epicromanticadventurouswartimedramaticvisually sweepingnostalgicfamily-oriented

What happens

Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan. The film is a character story, set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised backdrop of events across northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin during World War II, and government policies of seizing half-caste Aboriginal children then in effect. Production took place in Sydney, Darwin, Kununurra and Bowen. The film was released in cinemas on 26 November 2008 in Australia and the United States and on 26 December 2008 in the United Kingdom, with subsequent worldwide release dates throughout late December 2008, and January and February 2009, by 20th Century Fox. Australia received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $211 million worldwide. On 26 November 2023, Faraway Downs, an extended version of the film presented in the form of a six-episode mini-series, debuted on Disney+ in Australia, Disney+ Hotstar in India and Hulu in the US. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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