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Breaker Morant
on DVD (1980)
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| Starring: |
Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, Charles Tingwell, Terence Donovan, John Waters, Vincent Ball |
| Director: |
Bruce Beresford |
| Studio: |
PRISM LEISURE |
| Run time: |
120 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
Movies That Have Made Me Laugh, Made Me Cry, Made Me Think, Made Me Angry, Made Me Want To Change Things For The Better! |
| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Released: |
01/09/2001
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Brief synopsis of Breaker Morant
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.
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Radio Times
Director Bruce Beresford has never quite matched the impact he made here with this true story of three soldiers (led by Edward Woodward) fighting the Boers, who are court-martialled by the British in need of scapegoats for war crimes. What Beresford sometimes lacks in subtlety, he makes up for in an impassioned sense of injustice and he draws powerful performances from Woodward, reluctant counsel Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown.
Time Out
Three lieutenants (Woodward, Brown, Fitz-Gerald), members of an Australian platoon fighting in the Boer War, are...
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New York Times
"...Genuinely, surprisingly affecting..."
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