Australia 2008  PG-13, 165 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Western
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Brandon Walters, David Ngoombujarra, Jacek Koman, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruce Spence, John Jarratt, Bill Hunter, Essie Davis, Barry Otto
During World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) sets out to meet her husband at the cattle station they own in the Australian outback. She is escorted on a three-day trek through the desert by a man nicknamed The Drover (Hugh Jackman) and puts up with his swaggering style. They arrive at the cattle station and find that Sarah's husband has been murdered, and the overseer Neil Fletcher (David Wenham) is suspected because he is in cahoots with King Carney (Bryan Brown) to achieve a beef monopoly. If Sarah can transport her cattle to Darwin, Fletcher and Carney's plot will be foiled. Sarah appeals to The Drover to help her on the cattle drive. Despite good moments and bad, they fall in love and do arrive in Darwin–just in time for the Japanese attack. Fletcher's son Nullah (Brandon Walters), who has magical powers, narrates most of the story. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design.
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Cosi 1996 R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Pamela Rabe, Jacki Weaver, Paul Chubb, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young, Colin Friels, Colin Hay, David Wenham, Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Lewis (Ben Mendelsohn) takes a position as play director at a mental institution with the job of helping in the rehabilitation process. Inmate Roy (Barry Otto) talks Lewis into producing Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutti." A cast of wild characters from the patients is assembled, though none can sing nor speak Italian, which is the language of the play. But Lewis soon learns a lesson or two about imagination from the unlikely cast in this Australian production.
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Kiss or Kill 1997  R, 93 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Bill Bennett
Cast: Matt Day, Frances O'Connor, Chris Haywood, Barry Otto, Andrew S. Gilbert, Barry Langrishe, Max Cullen, Tiffany Peters, Julie Sobotta, Syd Brisbane
Lovers Al (Matt Day) and Nikki (Frances O'Connor) operate a scam in which Nikki picks up married businessmen and then drugs and robs them–until one of her marks dies. Al and Nikki find a tape in the briefcase of the victim exposing sports hero Zipper Doyle as a pedophile. Nikki threatens Zipper, and Al and Nikki make tracks out of town. But, people along the way keep dying, and the mistrust between Al and Nikki grows deeper.
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 Mr. Nice Guy 1997  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Sammo Hung, Fruit Chan
Cast: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Miki Lee, Karen McLymont, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Vince Poletto, Barry Otto, Sammo Hung, Emil Chau, Joyce Godenzi
TV chef Jackie (Jackie Chan) ends up in the middle of a gang war after he saves the life of a reporter (Karen McLymont) who had video taped drug lords in an incriminating situation. They were trying to retrieve the reporter's tapes when Jackie entered the picture. Now they are both in jeopardy.
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Oscar and Lucinda 1997 R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Barry Otto, Clive Russell, Bille Brown, Josephine Byrnes, Barnaby Kay
In England during the middle of the 19th century, Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) are outcasts–Oscar is a defrocked Anglican priest, and Lucinda is a liberated heiress who dreams of building a church made almost entirely of glass from her factory. Both are gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot successfully transport the glass church to the Australian outback.
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Rogue 2007 R, 92 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Horror / Thriller
Director: Greg Mclean
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington, Caroline Brazier, Stephen Curry, Celia Ireland, John Jarrett, Heather Mitchell, Geoff Morrell, Damien Richardson, Robert(3) Taylor, Mia Wasikowska, Barry Otto
American journalist Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) takes a river cruise with a group of tourists in Northern Australia. Their tour guide Kate (Radha Mitchell) is persuaded to steer the boat on a detour around a small island onto a secluded lake where her ex-husband Neil (Sam Worthington) appears in his own boat and buzzes the touring boat. Then, a 25-foot crocodile attacks both boats leaving the passengers stranded on the island as the waters rise and night closes in while the crocodile searches among them for its next meal.
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 Strictly Ballroom 1992 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance / Musical
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson, Barry Otto, Gia Carides, Antonio Vargas, Peter Whitford, John Hannan, Sonia Kruger, Kris McQuade, Pip Mushin, Leonie Page
Fran (Tara Morice) is a wallflower dreaming of dancing with ballroom dancing champion Scott (Paul Mercurio). Lo and behold, Scott chooses Fran as his new partner, and they soar to new heights in ballroom dancing.
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| 1. Australia (2008)
2. Cosi (1996)
3. Howling III: The Marsupials (1987)
4. Kiss or Kill (1997)
5. Mr. Nice Guy (1997)
6. Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
7. Rogue (2007)
8. Strictly Ballroom (1992)
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