When a bank robbery leads to the death of a police officer, Wyn (Simon Burke) and Slate (Martin Sacks) Jackson take witness Blanche McBride (Sigrid Thornton) hostage and attempt to evade capture. However, when the brothers begin to become enamored of their victim, their getaway becomes much more complicated. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Based on a novel by Thomas Keneally, which was in turn inspired by actual events, this drama is a shocking indictment of the racism inflicted on the indigenous people of Australia. Jimmie (Tommy Lewis) is a half-white, half-aborigine young man raised by a Methodist minister. Feeling outcast among the aborigines, Jimmie moves to the city and gets a ...
Even today, the Australian outback (the never-never of the title) is a daunting place to be left alone. In 1901, it was even more rugged and wild. In this artful drama, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor), a very genteel and citified Victorian-era newlywed, joins her husband in the Northern Territory to help manage a station ("station" is Aussie ...
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