Australia Release
Date: November 26, 2008 Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: Baz Luhrmann Screenwriter: Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard
Flanagan Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Bryan
Brown Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief
strong language) Official Website: Australiamovie.com
Plot Summary: "Australia" is an epic and romantic action adventure, set
in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English
aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a
rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him
to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming
journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving
terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese
forces that attacked Pearl Harbor. With his new film, Luhrmann is painting on a
vast canvas, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance,
drama, adventure and spectacle.
EN 5 Second Review:
A gorgeous movie that should win a few Oscars. A
Fantastic date movie, although we wouldn't see it with other guys..
The
kind of movie that is a movie, with all that the word promises
and implies. Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
What a gorgeous film, what strong performances, what
exhilarating images and -- yes, what sweeping romantic melodrama...more
"Australia"
is a grand, ambitious, terrible flop of a film Tom Long: Detroit News
It's an endurance test that ends in moans of recognition as
characters seem to be acting out scenes from other, better
movies. Really, you don't want to sit through this...more
EN 5 Second Review:
A gorgeous movie that should win a few Oscars. A
Fantastic date movie, although we wouldn't see it with other guys..
"Australia"
is a grand, ambitious, terrible flop of a film