Australia 2008 Trailer

Posted on 2008 under 11 November 2008, Drama, Epic, Fall 2008 Movie, History, Movie 2008, Romance, Studio: 20th Century Fox, USA

Australia
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Baz Luhrmann australia

“Australia,” a romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) 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.

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Kevin Blatchford said

November 9 2008 @ 9:17 pm

This great movie will no doubt prmote norther Australia and in particular the Kimberley to the world. The Thing you need to Know is that the Kimberley landcape and its wildeness area’s are under attack, not from dive bombers like the movie sceen set in Darwin. But from Resource companies with their eyes set on oil,gas iorn ore and bauxite but to name a few. What is needed is heritage listing for the Kimberley wilderness , I hope Baz’s film will also hilight this issue.
Wayne Gibbens said

November 16 2008 @ 1:11 am

It is a pity that everything has to be American, even a movie called Australia, about our North in the Kimberly through to Darwin. Just to let you know, we do not have “Ranches” in Australia, and never have. This is an American term. We have Cattle Stations, Farms and properties. You may be surprised to learn we are NOT American and actually get offended at being continually americanised. Surely a film set in and about Australia does not need to be Americanised - but then Americans tend to be a very arrogant lot with respect to this, and in my view it is to the detriment of what should be a great film.