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Australia

Release Date 26 Dec 2008 24 Apr 2009

User rating
Currently 3/5 Stars.

Critic rating

78% of raters want to see this movie

Certificate: 12A

Genre:

An English aristocrat inherits an Australian ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver to drive 2,000-head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Cast:
Nicole Kidman | Hugh Jackman | David Wenham | Jack Thompson | Bryan Brown

Writers:
Stuart Beattie | Baz Luhrmann | Ronald Harwood | Richard Flanagan

Producers:
Baz Luhrmann

Directors:
Baz Luhrmann

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Avg User rating
Currently 3/5 Stars.

User Reviews

- Currently 2/5 Stars.
ging-grr

Good performances and a good story but easily an hour too long.
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
dimkim

good film. nice storyline. amazing scenery
- Currently 3/5 Stars.
ciano
- Currently 5/5 Stars.
claireb_66
- Currently 2/5 Stars.
tensai808

For fans of epic romances. A little drab - nothing you haven't seen before.
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
hammer

Was suprisingly good and almost made up for Wolverine. . . almost.
- Currently 3/5 Stars.
Paul McGann
- Currently 3/5 Stars.
andrewire

Cheesy and forgettable.
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
luluk

This movie really surprised me. It's gorgeous and epic and well worth watching.
- Currently 2/5 Stars.
mart

great scenes, but the story is so boring at times. checked my watch more then once during this
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
Chad

A lot better than I was expecting. Some great acting all round, Hugh Jackman is the man. My only problem being the several times you think the movie is going to end and doesn't. A good watch none the less!!
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
nathan

Saw it Sweden, not a big fan of the director, but it was enjoyable enough.
- Currently 5/5 Stars.
Velvet

Beatiful
- Currently 2/5 Stars.
monika_fan

too long...
- Currently 4/5 Stars.
Dearbhla

Its melodramatic and over the top. But it is also great and wonderful