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The Proposition (2005) -- A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him 9 days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.
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Overview

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7.5/10   18,616 votes
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Writer:
Nick Cave (screenplay)
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Release Date:
6 October 2005 (Australia) more
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This land will be civilized.
Plot:
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him 9 days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother. full summary | add synopsis
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13 wins & 24 nominations more
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(110 articles)
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Leone meets Tarkovsky meets Patrick White meets Mad Max more (203 total)

Cast

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Richard Wilson ... Mike Burns

Noah Taylor ... Brian O'Leary
Jeremy Madrona ... Asian Prostitute
Jae Mamuyac ... Asian Prostitute

Guy Pearce ... Charlie Burns
Mick Roughan ... Mad Jack Bradshaw
Shane Watt ... John Gordon

Ray Winstone ... Captain Stanley
Robert Morgan ... Sergeant Lawrence
David Gulpilil ... Jacko
Bryan Probets ... Officer Dunn

Oliver Ackland ... Patrick Hopkins

Danny Huston ... Arthur Burns
David Vallon ... Tom Cox
Daniel Parker ... Henry Clark
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong grisly violence, and for language.
Runtime:
104 min | Canada:104 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Nick Cave finished the script in three weeks. more
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Anachronisms: Captain Stanley says of Australia "What fresh Hell is this?" The scene takes place in the 1880s, yet the quote is attributed to Dorothy Parker, who would not have been born yet. more
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Jellon Lamb: [speaking about Arthur Burns] "We are white men, Sir, not beasts. Oh, he sits up there in those melancholy hills; some say he sleeps in caves like a beast, slumbers deep like the Kraken. The Blacks say that he is a spirit. The Troopers will never catch him. Common force is meaningless, Mr. Murphy, as he squats up there on his impregnable perch. So I wait, Mr. Murphy. I wait.
Charlie Burns: [Knocks Jellon out with a beer mug] Aye, you wait. You wait here... bounty hunter.
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Peggy Gordon more

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131 out of 177 people found the following comment useful.
Leone meets Tarkovsky meets Patrick White meets Mad Max, 8 September 2005
9/10
Author: acquatically7 from Australia

Just superb - wonderful, austere direction that gets the best from a great cast and some extraordinary landscapes. A tight, disciplined script from Nick Cave that's testament to how his writing continues to reach new levels - not to mention his collaboration with Warren Ellis on the beautifully uneasy score.

There's a fantastic blend of European and Australian sensibilities here that makes this the least clichéd film to come out of this country for 20-odd years - and if it doesn't do well, it'll be because an increasingly soft and gutless nation is afraid to venture out of their frappuccino and mortgage comfort zone.

This is powerful, worthy art.

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