Australia

Synopsis

A romantic action-adventure set in Australia's northern outback prior to World War II. The movie centres on an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), who finds herself unexpectedly fighting to save a cattle station the size of Belgium.

When local cattle barons plot to take her land, Kidman's character reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Hugh Jackman) to drive 1500 head of cattle across northern Australia's breathtaking, yet brutal landscape.

Love ensues, but they must still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Ray Barrett, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson and Bill Hunter, David Wenham, Ben Mendelsohn, John Jarrett, Kerry Walker, Barry Otto, Matthew Whittet, Arthur Dignam, Bruce Spence, Tony Barry, Sean Hall, Essie Davis, and Eddie Baroo, Nathin Butler, Jacek Koman, Sandy Gore, Yuen Wah.

Production

Produced by Baz Luhrmann, G. Mac Brown and Catherine Knapman under Luhrmann's Sydney-based Bazmark Films banner. Australia will be distributed worldwide by News Corporation's Twentieth Century Fox.