australia movie
The highly anticipated film centres on an English aristocrat in the 1930s, played by Nicole Kidman, who comes to northern Australia to sell a cattle property the size of Belgium. [1]
Australia is a 2008 epic romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. [2]
Built on lavish vistas and impeccable production, Australia is unfortunately burdened with thinly drawn characters and a lack of originality. [3]
You’ve arrived at the very first website dedicated to the Baz Luhrmann film simply entitled, Australia. [1]
View company contact information for Australia on IMDbPro. [4]
The film begins as a fish-out-of-water comedy, then changes into a Western, then morphs into a romance, and it finishes as a World War II drama. [3]
Homegrown film Australia has been now been released on DVD and BluRay down under, despite it still showing at some cinemas. [...] After an epic journey across the country with a rough-hewn drover, Hugh Jackman, they are caught in the bombing of Darwin during World War II. [1]
Urged on by both pride and a sense of justice, Lady Ashley wants to drive her herd of cattle to Darwin so she can sell them to the troops, but she’ll require the help of an independent cowboy (fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman) to get them there. [3]
Not because it is a better movie, but because it’s very different and a lot more ambitious. [4]
MOULIN ROUGE’s Baz Luhrman and Nicole Kidman reteam for this epic that pays homage to their homeland. [3]
In Australia, on the brink of World War II, an English aristocrat travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. [5]
The movie was to be released on 13 November 2008 in Australia and 16 November 2008 in the United States; however, Fox announced that it had pushed back the release dates in both Australia and the United States to 26 November 2008, with subsequent worldwide release dates throughout late December 2008 and January and February 2009. [2]
She is determined to have her estranged husband sell his cattle ranch to a monopoly-craving businessman named King Carney (Bryan Brown), but when she arrives, Lord Ashley is dead, and her plan to sell the ranch changes when she sees an employee named Fletcher (David Wenham) cheating her husband’s business and mistreating a young boy named Nullah (Brandon Walters) because he is of mixed race. [...] March 02, 2009: RT on DVD: Exclusive Australia Scene, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and More! [3]
Sources:
[1] Australia - A Baz Luhrmann Film (Fansite)
[2] Australia (2008 Film) - Wikipedia
[3] Australia Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
[4] Australia (2008)
[5] Australia - Yahoo! Movies