Australia

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bruce Spence, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, Jack Thompson, Ben Mendelsohn, David Gulpilil, Jacek Koman, John Jarratt, Wah Yuen, Essie Davis, Ray Barrett, Barry Otto, Nathin Butler, Kerry Walker, Tony Barry

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Rating: PG-13

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Release date: November 26th, 2008

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

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