| Breaker Morant (1980),
				Director: Bruce Beresford, Rated PG A 
						Powerful True Story Of Bitter Revenge... 
				
				  Starring: 
				Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Jon Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 
				"Bud" Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Vincent Ball, Ray Meagher, 
				Chris Haywood, Russell Kiefel, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Rod Mullinar, 
				Alan Cassell, Rob Steele 
				DML Rating:
				★★★★★★★★☆☆ 
				- great 
				"The fact of the 
				matter is that war changes men's natures. The barbarities of war 
				are seldom committed by abnormal men. The tragedy of war is that 
				these horrors are committed by normal men in abnormal 
				situations. Situations in which the ebb and flow of everyday 
				life have departed and have been replaced by a constant round of 
				fear and anger, blood and death." - Harry Morant 
				Why watch this? This 
				is a superb study on the Boer War, and what combat does to 
				normal men. 
				Plot Summary: 
				This military trial drama centers occurs at the end of the 
				Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. Three Australian officers 
				in the elite Bushveldt Carbineers who are accused of 
				murder by their British commanders for the crime of murdering 
				captured prisoners. The three, Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter 
				Handcock and George Witton, are assigned to Major Thomas, an 
				inexperienced military lawyer with little time to prepare. The 
				clear British goal is to use this event, showing their 
				willingness to sentence their own soldiers to death, will 
				hopefully help to end the conflict. Dad's Preview:  This film successfully uses 
				flashbacks to flesh out the details. From this complex tale we 
				learn two things - First, war and its brutality does change the 
				men involved. Second, all parties have motives, some noble, some 
				devious, and this makes it hard to determine fault and guilt. In 
				the end, the ones in charge usually win. Speaking of wins, this 
				film won an impressive 10 Australian Academy of Cinema and TV 
				Arts awards. 
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						Australian Film Corp., Australian Film Comm. The Seven 
						Network,
 Pact Productions; Roadshow Film Distributors
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