{"product_id":"australia-dvd-used-1","title":"Australia - DVD (Used)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicole Kidman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e FOX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e NTSC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 03-03-2009\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\n\n\nRather than sell her late husband's rundown Australian cattle station so that she can resume her life in London on the brink of WWII, a young widow embarks on an arduous cattle drive to keep the place running, and not only falls in love with her loner manager, but become a surrogate mother to a half-caste aboriginal boy.\n\n\nAmazon.ca\n\n\nWatching the early reels of\nAustralia, there's certainly no doubt who's in charge: this could only be a film by Baz Luhrmann, that wacky purveyor of all things over-the-top. In this old-fashioned, 165-minute hymn to his native continent, Luhrmann travels back to the late 1930s\/early '40s, for a scenario that would not have been out of place at MGM in that era. Straightlaced Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) journeys Down Under and is put under the protection of--crikey--a rugged cattle driver known only as the Drover (Hugh Jackman). When the two are forced to team up (along with a motley crew of misfits) to take a herd of cattle through the hostile landscape, their way is challenged by the dastardly plans of the local beef baron (Bryan Brown) and his elaborately evil lieutenant (David Wenham). At some point you realize that this film's main commodity is not cattle, but corn: Luhrmann piles on the melodrama and the old-school climaxes with his usual frantic glee. Employing \"When You Wish Upon a Star\" and the Japanese air force to make his case is not beyond Luhrmann, and he reaches big here. Those with a taste for un-ironic silliness might just go for this stuff, but even fans of the Baz will have their patience tested by the broad comedy and the absence of discernable chemistry between Kidman and Jackman.\nAustralia does manage to skewer the culture's prejudices against the Aboriginal people, but in this context such a victory comes across as rather tinny.\n--Robert Horton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 024543563723\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0024543563723\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e DVD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ID Shop.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51460530307369,"sku":"HQ-MHBG-F1OR","price":3.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/6225\/6681\/files\/51aFjc6sMsL_115a462d-b32c-4d04-a15d-28c6e5789694.jpg?v=1762032002","url":"https:\/\/konnichiwa.ca\/fr\/products\/australia-dvd-used-1","provider":"こんにちはマート | KON NICHIWA MART","version":"1.0","type":"link"}