Overview
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 by Japanese forces firsthand.
Details
- Director
- Baz Luhrmann
- Writer
- Stuart Beattie
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $130,000,000
Cast
Bryan Brown
David Gulpilil
David Wenham
Essie Davis
Hugh Jackman
John Jarratt
John Walton
Nathin Art Butler
Nicole Kidman
Shea Adams
Keywords
1930s
1940s
australia
australian outback
cattle drive
missionary
prejudice
racist
ranch
stampede
suspicion of adultery
trampled to death
world war ii
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