Australia

  • Theatrical - Wide 2008-11-18
Box Office Gross: $211,787,511
Running Time: 165 minutes
Language: English
Production Company: Bazmark, 20th Century Fox, Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Film Partners

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8/10

Synopsis

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... See more unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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