Australia

Released Date
November 26, 2008
Distributor
Twentieth Century Fox
Genre
Drama
Rating
PG-13
Budget
$130,000,000
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$49,554,002 + $162,233,509 = $211,787,511
55
Hugh Jackman

as The Drover

56
Nicole Kidman

as Lady Sarah Ashley

54
Ben Mendelsohn

as Captain Dutton

58
David Wenham

as Neil Fletcher

83
Jack Thompson

as Kipling Flynn

76
Bryan Brown

as King Carney

About Australia

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, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

About

A woman travels from Britain to Australia to inspect a cattle ranch she inherited amidst the outbreak of the second World War. She reluctantly enlists the help of a local man to drive cattle across hundred of miles to save her property. The film was directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Trivia

Original music for the picture was composed by David Hirschfelder. The film was nominated for nine Satellite Awards and took home three.