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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 .
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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. Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
Nov 26, 2008 · Overview. 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.
Dec 28, 2008 · Sat 27 Dec 2008 19.01 EST. T he ambitious, not to say hubristic, title Australia brings to mind the blockbuster novels of James A Michener that took a place (Hawaii, Poland, Texas) and gave us...
Summaries. In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape. In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland.
Nov 25, 2008 · Advertisement. The movie is set in 1939. Hitler has invaded Poland. The armies of the free world will need beef. In England, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is alarmed by reports that her husband is philandering on his enormous cattle station, Faraway Downs, in northern Australia. She comes to see for herself, but arrives to find him murdered.
