AUSTRALIA

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.

PRINCIPAL CAST

NICOLE KIDMANLady Sarah Ashley

HUGH JACKMANThe Drover

ESSIE DAVISKatherine

DAVID WENHAMNeil Fletcher

BRYAN BROWNKing Carney

DAVID GULPILILKing George