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Dominican Rep. Australia
- Original title
- Australia
- Year
- 2008
- Running time
- 165 min.
- Country
Australia- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Nicole Kidman
Hugh Jackman
David Wenham
Bryan Brown
Jack Thompson
Bruce Spence
Brandon Walters- James Hong
Ray Barrett
Jacek Koman
Bill Hunter
John Jarratt
Yuen Wah- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Australia-United States;
- Genre
- Adventure. Drama. War. Romance | Epic film. Melodrama. Romantic Drama. II World War
- Synopsis
- Australia is the story of Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), an English, aristocratic woman who leaves England to follow her husband to Australia. He is in Australia with the intention of selling his cattle station the size of Belgium. However, Lady Ashley believes he is having an affair and travels out there to confront him. The property is in the north of Australia, and she embarks on an African Queen type journey, accompanied by a rough, hewn cattle drover (Hugh Jackman). Ultimately, Lady Ashley finds herself inheriting the cattle station and, in order to save it, she and the drover must undertake an epic cattle drive to Darwin. In the course of that journey, she falls in love with the drover, and the Australian landscape, and realises that her life is not over, and there’s always a new life to be had. The title Australia is intended to sum up the story of her life - her journey, the landscape, and the people she meets - all of which transform her life forever.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2008: Nominated for Oscar: Best Costume Design2008: Nominated for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Young Actor/Actress (Brandon Walters)2008: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 2 Nom. incl. Most Promising Performer (Walters)2008: Satellite Awards: 3 awards. 9 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"A wildly ambitious, luridly indulgent spectacle of romance, action, melodrama and historic revisionism, Australia is windy, overblown, utterly preposterous and insanely entertaining."
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"Australia is not the masterpiece we were hoping for. (...) While it will be very popular with many people I think there's a slight air of disappointment after it all,"
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"Australia is not a bad film, but it is far from a great one. (...) The film is fine, and never boring but, boy, is it overlong. At a mammoth 165 minutes it feels too much like a work-in-progress. (...) There is a lot of narrative flab and longueurs in the first two hours and the film often has the pace of a steamroller with engine trouble."
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"Baz Luhrmann has pulled off an incredible film (...) A love letter to the Australian landscape and our history, 'Australia' has international blockbuster written all over it."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 30 My Favorite Australian/New Zealand Movies (22)
- 45 My Top 10 Movies from 2008 (97)
- 85 My Favorite Romantic Dramas (55)
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