SYNOPSIS

In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880’s, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman’s rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang – the brothers wanted for a brutal rape and murder. But while Charlie (Guy Pearce) and Mikey are taken prisoner, the gangs psychopathic leader escapes to their hideout in the hills. Determined to finish the job, the lawman makes Charlie a proposition – find his fugitive brother, kill him and young Mikey will be saved from the gallows.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

March 20, 2006

DIRECTOR

John Hillcoat

WRITER

Nick Cave

COMPANY

Tartan Films

GENRE

Crime, Drama, Western

CERT

18

RUNTIME

104 minutes

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