Summary

Luhrmann’s film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country’s most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Cast

Nicole Kidman … Lady Sarah Ashley

Hugh Jackman … The Drover

David Wenham … Neil Fletcher

Bryan Brown … King Carney

Jack Thompson … Kipling Flynn

Jacek Koman … Ivan

Ben Mendelsohn … Dutton

David Gulpilil … King George

Essie Davis … Katherine

Release Dates

Australia 26 November 2008

USA 26 November 2008

Hungary 11 December 2008

Belgium 17 December 2008

Netherlands 18 December 2008

Finland 19 December 2008

Egypt 24 December 2008

France 24 December 2008

Brazil 25 December 2008

Denmark 25 December 2008