"You are in the hands of a powerful storyteller. Baz Luhrmann is a one-of-akind filmmaker." - Patrick Goldstein, The Los Angeles Times
"Rousing. Passionate. In the style of classics such as 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Lawrence of Arabia'." - Megan Lehmann, THe Hollywood Reporter
"Spectacular. Brethtaking. A compelling multi-layered story." - Anne Barrowlcough, The Times, London
In northern Australia prior to 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.
