Australia
(2008)
Director:
Baz Luhrmann
Writer:
Baz Luhrmann, Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan, Steven McGregor
Cast:
Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis
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.