Movie · 2008
Australia
“Welcome to Australia!”
Released 18 November 2008 165 min Adventure / Romance / Drama More from 2008 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
FR·01
How old were they?
Ray Barrett
as Ramsden
Arthur Dignam
as Father Benedict
Bill Hunter
as Skipper (Qantas Sloop)
Jack Thompson
as Kipling Flynn
Bryan Brown
as King Carney
Kerry Walker
as Myrtle Allsop
Sandy Gore
as Gloria Carney
Yuen Wah
as Sing Song
John Jarratt
as Sergeant
David Gulpilil
as King George
Jacek Koman
as Ivan
David Wenham
as Neil Fletcher
Nicole Kidman
as Lady Sarah Ashley
Hugh Jackman
as The Drover
Ben Mendelsohn
as Captain Dutton
Essie Davis
as Katherine
Matthew Whittet
as Brother Frank
Shea Adams
as Carney Boy
Nathin Art Butler
as Carney Boy
John Walton
as Carney Boy
Nigel Harbach
as Carney Boy
Eddie Baroo
as Bull
FR·02
The numbers
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
81Ray Barrett — oldest on the call sheet
33Matthew Whittet — youngest billed
54average age of the credited cast