UBC Film Society

Australia

2008, Rated: PG, 165min

Just because it is, doesn’t mean it should be.

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.

Directed by
Baz Luhrmann
Written by
Stuart Beattie & Baz Luhrmann
Starring
Hugh Jackman & Nicole Kidman

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