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Australia (2008)  link to Australia on IMDb  

Number: 1172

cover Australia

IMDb Rating:
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6.6/10 (108.2K votes)

Also known as: Untitled Baz Luhrmann Project (working title)

Country: UK, 165 minutes

Spoken languages: English, Japanese

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Director(s): Baz Luhrmann

Storyline:
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man 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, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Cast:

Eddie Baroo Bull
Ray Barrett Ramsden
Tony Barry Sergeant Callahan
Tony Barry Mission Boy
Bryan Brown King Carney

Medium: Original DVD, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Subtitles: English, Russian, Cantonese

Location: Drawer 8 Slot 157

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1