Jack Thompson

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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

113 mins|100%73%
The first Australian film to play in...
The first Australian film to play in competition at Cannes, this true story drama follows a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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The Sum of Us

R100 mins|63%80%
In this Aussie comedy drama, a widowed...
In this Aussie comedy drama, a widowed father (Jack Thompson) has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son (Russell Crowe), who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."
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Yolngu Boy

88 mins79%
After committing a crime for which he...
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a long journey to seek help from a tribal leader in this Australian film.
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Breaker Morant

PG107 mins|100%91%
Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the...
Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, this Australian war film follows three lieutenants who execute prisoners as a means of deflecting attentions from war crimes committed by their superiors.
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High Ground

104 mins|90%77%
A bounty hunter (Simon Baker) and an...
A bounty hunter (Simon Baker) and an indigenous Australian (Jacob Junior Nayinggul) hunt down the leader of an Aboriginal mob terrorising Northern Territory in this Australian Outback-set period thriller.
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Mystery Road

116 mins|92%64%
Slow-burning, modern-day western, centring on a police...
Slow-burning, modern-day western, centring on a police detective who returns to his hometown to undertake an investigation into the brutal murder of a teenage Aboriginal girl. The crime and the detective's presence bring the town's long-simmering racial tensions to the surface. Stars Aaron Pedersen, Jack Thompson and Hugo Weaving.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

R124 mins|86%79%
During World War II, British Major Celliers...
During World War II, British Major Celliers (David Bowie, The Hunger) and Japanese prison camp commander Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto, CODA) enter into a tragic battle of wills.
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Broken Arrow

R108 mins|54%44%
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately...
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
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Flesh + Blood

18126 mins|86%63%
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge...
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
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The Man from Snowy River

102 mins|85%89%
Adventure film based on Australian writer Banjo...
Adventure film based on Australian writer Banjo Paterson's peom from 1890. Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of his father's farm...
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Around the Block

104 mins|67%38%
Christina Ricci stars as an American teacher...
Christina Ricci stars as an American teacher who takes a troubled inner-city Sydney youth (Hunter Page-Lochard) – the son of a criminal boss – under her wing in this debut from Australian director Sarah Spillane.
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Australia

165 mins|54%65%
Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrman's romantic, period...
Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrman's romantic, period epic, starring fellow natives Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.
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Blinder

118 mins38%
Sports drama centring on the fallout from...
Sports drama centring on the fallout from a scandal that hits the tight-knit Aussie Rules club, the Torquay Tigers. After ten years away, one-time Torquay legend Tom (Oliver Ackland) returns to face his demons and pull the club back together. Also stars Josh Helman (Animal Kingdom), Rose McIver (The Lovely Bones) and Anna Hutchinson (Cabin in the Woods).
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Demon-creatures fantasy thriller starring Katie Holmes and...
Demon-creatures fantasy thriller starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce, written by Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) and Matthew Robbins (Mimic).
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Never Too Late (2020)

Four war buddies hatch a plan to...
Four war buddies hatch a plan to escape from their retirement home in this Australian comedy starring Oscar nominee James Cromwell (The Green Mile), Dennis Waterman (The Sweeney), two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) and Jack Thompson (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones).
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Ruben Guthrie

Australian writer-actor Brendan Cowell turns his lauded...
Australian writer-actor Brendan Cowell turns his lauded play into a feature-length film, a fictional biopic of a creative ad man and party boy who attempts to give up booze after a drunken incident that snaps his relationship in half...
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Sunday Too Far Away

93 mins79%
Classic Australian drama, a defining piece of...
Classic Australian drama, a defining piece of work in the 1970/80s Australian new wave. Set on an outback station in 1956, where hard-living shearers battle the clock, the sheep and each other for the position of 'gun shearer’...
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Swinging Safari

Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue lead this...
Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue lead this comedy from the writer-director of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
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