SYNOPSIS

Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is a criminal living in the outback. He and his two brothers, Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mikey (Richard Wilson), are on the run from the law for rape and murder. Arthur is a violent and dangerous sociopath with a much longer rap sheet than his siblings and a reputation for hiding out in villages so lawless the police are afraid to visit them, while Mikey is a much younger and more impressionable. The authorities capture Charlie and Mikey after a bloody shootout, and the brothers are handed over to Capt. Stanley (Ray Winstone), a British lawman sent to Australia to help bring order to the colonies. Stanley proposes a deal to Charlie, explaining that it is Arthur he really wants, and that he is willing to spare the childlike and terrified Mikey if Charlie can find Arthur and murder him. Charlie, realizing that this is his only hope to save his simpleton younger brother (who is scheduled to be hanged on Christmas Day), agrees and sets out to find and execute his other brother, who he believes has gone too far into the world of crime. As Charlie scours the backwaters of Australia, he encounters Jellon Lamb (John Hurt), an educated yet thoroughly menacing bounty hunter. In time, Charlie finds his brother, but isn't certain if he can carry out his mission. Meanwhile, Stanley struggles to bring a European sense of civility to the rough and tumble land he now calls home, while his wife Martha (Emily Watson) becomes the focus of the lustful appetites of the men in town.

TECHNICAL DATA

Director: John Hillcoat

Screenplay: Nick Cave
Cast: Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Emily Watson, David Wenham
Editing: Jon Gregory
Cinematography: Benoit Delhomme
Soundtrack: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
Runtime: 104 min. Language: English Color: Color

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY
John Hillcoat is born in 1961 and he grew in North America, Canada, and the Great Britain. A career in fine arts led him to registering in the School of cinema Swinburne of Australia, where he produced two recognized dramatic shorts, The Blonde's Dates With Death and Frankie and Johnny. He continued with a career of success in the direction and editing of musical clips for artists as Nick Cave, INXS, Crowded House, Depeche Mode, Muse and Razorlight, for which it was an object of several international prizes. After three years of investigating the top-security prisons of North America and Australia, John co-writeed and directed his first length, Ghost... Of the Civilian Dead (1988). His following movie, released in 1998, To Have and To Hold (1996), places in the jungle of Papua New Guinea it. The John's third film was the long The Proposition (2005) led by Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, John Hurt and Emily Watson. His latest movies was The Road (2009), an adaption from Cormac McCarthy novel.


FILMOGRAPHY
- The Road (2009)
- The Proposition (2005)
- To Have & to Hold (1996)
- Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)