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6.6Set 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.
Released: 2008-11-18165 minDir: Baz LuhrmannAdventure, Romance, Drama
Cast
- Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley
- Hugh Jackman as The Drover
- Essie Davis as Katherine
- David Wenham as Neil Fletcher
- Bryan Brown as King Carney
- David Gulpilil as King George
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Baz Luhrmann
- Screenplay by
- Baz Luhrmann Ronald Harwood Stuart Beattie Richard Flanagan
- Story by
- Baz Luhrmann
- Produced by
- Baz Luhrmann Catherine Knapman G. Mac Brown
- Starring
- Nicole Kidman Hugh Jackman David Wenham Bryan Brown Jack Thompson David Gulpilil
- Cinematography
- Mandy Walker
- Edited by
- Dody Dorn Michael McCusker
- Music by
- David Hirschfelder
- Production companies
- Bazmark Films Dune Entertainment III Ingenious Media ScreenWest
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release dates
- 18 November 2008 ( 2008-11-18 ) ( Sydney ) 26 November 2008 ( 2008-11-26 ) (Australia and United States) 26 December 2008 ( 2008-12-26 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
Key dates
- Published
- 25 December 2008
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Named after
- Australia
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- World War II
- Creator
- Baz Luhrmann
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Baz Luhrmann
- Screenwriter
- Baz Luhrmann
Article
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.