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2008 · 2h 45m · Adventure · Romance · Drama
TMDB 6.6/10 (2,475 votes)
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. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Box office $212M worldwide
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Cast & crew political lean — 2 of 15 researched: 2 left · 0 center · 0 right · 0 no public record. Based only on cited public statements, endorsements, and documented donations.
“Distance is the continual theme and has been one of the main conditioning factors in Australian history. She was distant and dependent, a continent swinging on a long chain in antipodean darkness.”
“[At the time of Federation] Most Australians were still strangers in a new land. The land was only half won.”
“I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is Life; scenery, and northern Vic.; temper, democratic; bias, offensively Australian.”
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
“Surely what the Americans have done by war, Australians can bring about in peace.”
“Australia began her political history as a crouching serf kept in subjection by the whip of a ruffian gaoler, and her progress, so far, consists merely in a change of masters.”
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