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Australia is a movie with a little bit of everything. Comedy, suspense, action, romance, it’s got everything. It’s basically an Australian western movie with a storyline that takes place right when World War II hits Australia pretty hard.

Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman star as Drover and Sarah Ashley, respectively. Ashley comes to Australia to sell her husband’s ranch. A venture she feels is unprofitable and allows him to be less than faithful to her. But when she show’s up she finds that her husband is dead. This really frees up Ashley’s ties to the ranch but she doesn’t sell. She doesn’t sell because she becomes emotionally tied to a young Aborigine boy with ties to the ranch and she becomes enraged with the local ranch mogul who wants the cattle market in the area all to his company.

Ashley’s desire to ranch the area rests squarely on the shoulders of a man who is quite simply known as Drover, played by Hugh Jackman. Drover is, you guessed it, a cattle Drover. While we never know too much about it throughout the film we get to know why he prefers the company of Aborigine people in what was an extremely racist period in Australia. Drover’s ability to drive cattle is why Ashley relies on him, but as the two spend more time together they develop a relationship with each other and a relationship with the young Aborigine boy Nullah. The romance between Jackman and Kidman is there and it’s a big part of the story and it works with tying everything that goes on in the movie from beginning to end, and that’s a tremendous amount of stuff to get through.

Kidman is terrific in this movie as she usually is and Jackman does a good job as playing Drover, but stealing the show in the movie is the young Brandon Walters, playing the role of Nullah. He did an awesome job as the young boy and really is the highlight of the entire movie. He makes you sympathize with the Aborigine people, he makes you sympathize with Sarah Ashley, he makes you sympathize with Drover. Nullah is the key component of the movie and Walters played the role fantastically.