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Director:
Writer:
Nick Cave (screenplay)
Release Date:
6 October 2005 (Australia)
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Tagline:
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
Awards:
13 wins
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24 nominations
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(110 articles)
Review: ‘The Road’ is one of the best adaptations in recent years
(From Reel Loop. 15 December 2009, 4:34 AM, PST)
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(From Reel Loop. 15 December 2009, 4:34 AM, PST)
The 100 Best Films of the Decade (part 2)
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Leone meets Tarkovsky meets Patrick White meets Mad Max
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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.
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Runtime:
104 min | Canada:104 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:MA |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
New Zealand:R16 |
Ireland:16 |
Sweden:15 |
Finland:K-15 |
Norway:15 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Germany:16 |
Argentina:13 |
Singapore:M18 |
France:-16
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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.
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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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Charlie Burns: [Knocks Jellon out with a beer mug] Aye, you wait. You wait here... bounty hunter.
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Soundtrack:
Peggy Gordon
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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.