Australia

Resource Information

The work Australia represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Australia

Statement of responsibility

Twentieth Century Fox ; directed by Baz Luhrmann ; screenplay by Baz Luhrmann & Stuart Beattie & Ronald Harwood & Richard Flanagan ; story by Baz Luhrmann ; produced by Baz Luhrmann, G. Mac Brown, Catherine Knapman ; director of photography, Mandy Walker ; in association with Dune Entertainment LLC and Ingenious Film Partners a Bazmark production

Contributor

• Crombie, Lillian,
• Harwood, Ronald, 1934-
• Baroo, Eddie, 1968-
• Yovich, Ursula,
• Barry, Tony, 1941-
• Davis, Essie,
• Dune Entertainment,
• Otto, Barry, 1941-
• Koman, Jacek, 1956-
• Luhrmann, Baz,
• Brown, Bryan, 1947-
• Barrett, Ray, 1927-2009,
• Walters, Brandon, 1996-
• Kidman, Nicole, 1967-
• Walker, Kerry, 1948-
• Thompson, Jack, 1940-
• Ngoombujarra, David, 1967-
• Knapman, Catherine,
• Hirschfelder, David,
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation,
• Bazmark Films (Firm),
• Brown, G. Mac, 1957-
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,
• Walker, Mandy, 1963-
• Flanagan, Richard, 1961-
• Mendelsohn, Ben,
• Wenham, David, 1965-
• Cullen, Max, 1940-
• Gulpilil,
• Ingenious Film Partners (Firm),
• Jackman, Hugh,
• Gore, Sandy,
• Beattie, Stuart,

Actor

• Crombie, Lillian,
• Baroo, Eddie, 1968-
• Yovich, Ursula,
• Barry, Tony, 1941-
• Davis, Essie,
• Otto, Barry, 1941-
• Koman, Jacek, 1956-
• Brown, Bryan, 1947-
• Barrett, Ray, 1927-2009,
• Walters, Brandon, 1996-
• Kidman, Nicole, 1967-
• Walker, Kerry, 1948-
• Thompson, Jack, 1940-
• Ngoombujarra, David, 1967-
• Mendelsohn, Ben,
• Wenham, David, 1965-
• Cullen, Max, 1940-
• Gulpilil,
• Jackman, Hugh,
• Gore, Sandy,

Composer

• Hirschfelder, David,

Director of photography

• Walker, Mandy, 1963-

Film director

• Luhrmann, Baz,

Film distributor

• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,

Film producer

• Luhrmann, Baz,
• Knapman, Catherine,
• Brown, G. Mac, 1957-

Presenter

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation,

Production company

• Dune Entertainment,
• Bazmark Films (Firm),
• Ingenious Film Partners (Firm),

Screenwriter

• Harwood, Ronald, 1934-
• Luhrmann, Baz,
• Flanagan, Richard, 1961-
• Beattie, Stuart,

Subject

• War films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• History
• Cattle breeders
• Fiction films
• Darwin (N.T.) -- History -- Bombardment, 1942 -- Drama
• Film adaptations
• Australia -- History -- Drama
• Ranches -- Australia -- Drama
• Cattle breeders -- Australia -- Drama
• Ranches
• World War (1939-1945)
• Fiction films
• 1939-1945
• Western films
• Adventure films
• Aristocracy (Political science) -- Australia -- Drama
• War films
• Feature films
• Drovers
• Aristocracia -- Australia -- Teatro
• Drovers -- Australia -- Drama
• Bombardment of Darwin (Northern Territory : 1942)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations -- Drama
• Aristocracy (Social class)
• Aristocracy (Social class) -- Australia -- Drama
• War -- Feature
• Drama
• Feature films
• War films
• Military operations, Aerial
• Western films
• Action and adventure films
• Australia
• Film adaptations
• Action and adventure films
• Western -- Feature
• Adventure -- Feature
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Northern Territory -- Darwin
• Ganado vacuno -- Comercio -- Australia -- Teatro
• Western films

Genre

• Feature films
• Adventure
• Teatro
• Western
• trueFilm adaptations
• War films
• Action and adventure films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Western films
• War
• trueDrama
• Fiction films
• Adventure films
• trueHistory

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat 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 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

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Production and costumes designed by Catherine Martin ; film editors, Dody Dorn, Michael McCusker ; co-producer, Catherine Martin ; original music by David Hirschfelder ; executive music supervisor, Anton Monsted ; visual effects supervisor, Chris Godfrey

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language

Language note

In English, dubbed French, or dubbed Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.A88 2009

PerformerNote

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Brandon Walters, David Ngoombujarra, Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Barry Otto, Kerry Walker, Sandy Gore, Ursula Yovich, Lillian Crombie, Yuen Wah, Angus Pilakui, Jacek Koman, Tony Barry, Ray Barrett, Max Cullen, Eddie Baroo

Runtime

165

Technique

live action