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Breaker Morant

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Breaker Morant (1980)

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Reviews Counted: 18

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Average Rating: 8.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the... One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Based on a play by Kenneth G. Ross, the film is a tersely dramatic account of the true story of the court-martial of three soldiers attached to the Bushveld Carbineers, a guerrilla warfare unit of the British army that operated during the Boer War (1899-1902). Edward Woodward stars as Lt. Harry "Breaker" Morant, the primus inter pares of this trio that includes Lt. Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Lt. George Witton (Lewis Fitzgerald). Attorney Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson) is given only one day to mount a defense of the officers, who have been charged with the death of Boer prisoners and a German minister. Weaving flashbacks into the trial proceedings, Beresford tells the story of the controversial killing, an act of revenge against the Boers for having killed and mutilated a close friend of Morant's. While the young Witton fears for his life, Morant and Handcock display only a caustically witty stoicism as they await the trial's outcome. Superbly executed in every area, the film is a memorable evocation of the hypocrisy of empire. [More]

Starring: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown

Starring: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown

Director: Bruce Beresford

Director: Bruce Beresford
Screenwriter: David Stevens

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05/07/07
Chuck O'Leary
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Memorable Aussie epic with Edward Woodward particularly good.

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04/20/07
Steve Crum
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Excellent anti-war flick from Austrailian "new wave"

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The film all Australian films since have tried to live up to - and couldn't

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Jules Brenner
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contains one of cinema's most undernoticed and passionate speeches

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Philip Martin
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Woodward delivers a fine performance as the soft-spoken commander, Brown is effectively hot-tempered and Fitz-Gerald is terrifically naïve.

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Carol Cling
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Breaker Morant is a top-notch film about an injustice in the annals of military history.

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A superb war movie with an unsettling moral.

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