An English aristocrat and a rugged stockman drive cattle across vast lands, finding romance amid wartime peril.
Epic and romantic. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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Nothing past what a PG-13 promises: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated PG-13.
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Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
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