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A 20th Century Fox Release
Australia (2008)
Also known as Untitled Baz Luhrmann Project
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Year of U.S. Release: 2008

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Screenwriter(s): Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Prod. Company: Bazmark, Inc.
Genre(s): Drama, Epic, Romance
U.S. Release Date: TBA, 2008 (Estimated)
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Set in Australia, the story is being compared to Gone With the Wind.

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SThe romantic action-adventure, set in northern Australia prior to World War II, centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh 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.
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