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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 42 min. 45 sec.) ; 593810177 bytes |
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*Violence and Frequent Coarse Language* Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, and featuring a star-studded cast, this movie follows the series of events after the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang.Law officer Capt. Morris Stanley (Ray Winstone) has two of the four Burns brothers, Charlie (Guy Pearce) and Mikey (Richard Wilson) in custody, while Arthur Burns (Danny Huston), the eldest brother and the gang's mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout.Stanley makes a deal with Charlie - that he will pardon him - and more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mikey from the gallows if he hunts down and kills Arthur within nine days.As Charlie sets off to find his brother, Stanley's boss Eden Fletcher (David Wenham) learns of the deal they made and orders that Mikey be given 100 lashes. Stanley is aghast as he believes Mikey is innocent and that the flogging will surely kill him, and it will also put in jeopardy his deal with Charlie.Meanwhile, Charlie encounters a bounty hunter, Jellon Lamb (John Hurt), who is in pursuit of the Burns brothers, and leaves him unconscious, but is then set upon himself by a group of Aboriginals. Speared in the shoulder and facing death Charlie hears a shot ring out and wakes up in his brother's hideout.Unwilling to kill his brother, Charlie decides they have to break Mikey out of prison. They set off for town along with Author's psychopathic sidekick Samuel (Tom Budge), only to learn that Mikey is already dead. As Arthur and Samuel go on a murderous spree Charlie is forced to choose between his family and his conscience.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Directed by John Hillcoat. Produced by: Film Consortium, Jackie O Productions, Pacific Film and Television Commission, Pictures in Paradise Pty. Ltd., Surefire Film Productions LLP, UK Film Council |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-10-11 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: MA |
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Hopkins family.
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Brothers -- Psychology.
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Criminal behavior.
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Outlaws in motion pictures.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Hillcoat, John, director
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Hurt, John, cast
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Huston, Danny, cast
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Pearce, Guy, cast
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Watson, Emily, cast
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Wenham, David, cast
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Winstone, Ray, cast
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