Nicole Kidman: A Kind of Life (34 page)

 
Australia
(2008)

CAST

Nicole Kidman

Hugh Jackman

Shea Adams

Jack Thompson

Bryan Brown

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Writers: Stuart Beattle, Baz Luhrmann

This is an epic adventure set in pre-World War II Australia about an English aristocrat, played by Nicole Kidman, who inherits a large ranch that is targeted for a takeover by an unsavory cattle baron. To fight them off, she partners with one of her cowboys (Hugh Jackman).

CAST

Nicole Kidman

Daniel Day-Lewis

Marion Cotillard

Penelope Cruz

Judi Dench

Sophia Loren

Kate Hudson

Fergie Duhamel

Director: Rob Marshall

Writers: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella

A famous filmmaker makes an effort to make sense of his personal and professional life as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his agent, his muse, his mistress, and his mother.

CAST

Nicole Kidman

Aaron Eckhart

Dianne Wiest

Miles Teller

Sandra Oh

Mike Doyle

Ali Marsh

Director: John Cameron Mitchell

Writers: David Lindsay-Abaire

A happily married couple suffer the loss of their young son in a car accident.  The mother, played by Nicole Kidman, finds solace in a relationship with the teenage driver of the car that killed her son. The father cannot extricate himself from the past and seeks refuge in the company of outsiders.

CAST

Adam Sandler

Jennifer Aniston

Brooklyn Decker

Nicole Kidman

Nick Swardson

Dave Matthews

Griffin Gluck

Director: Dennis Dugan

Writer: Allan Loeb, Timothy Dowling

A plastic surgeon played by Adam Sandler enlists the help of his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to pose as his soon-to-be divorced wife in an attempt to cover up a lie he has told his girlfriend.

CAST

Zac Efron

Matthew McConaughey

Nicole Kidman

John Cusack

David Oyelowa

Scott Glenn

Ned Bellamy

Nealia Gordon

Macy Gray

Director: Lee Daniels

Writers: Peter Dexter, Lee Daniels

Ward Jansen, played by Matthew McConaughey, is a newspaper reporter who returns home to investigate a murder case and takes on his younger brother Jack (Zac Efron) as his driver. Conflict arises when the love letter pen pal (Nicole Kidman) of the imprisoned convict stirs up the romantic feelings of young Jack and urinates on him in a controversial scene in the film to lessen the effect of a painful jellyfish attack. This is an anti-hero film about Southern gothic violence in which there are no likeable characters.

CAST

Nicole Kidman

Mia Wasikowska

David Alford

Matthew Goode

Peg Allen

Lauren E. Roman

Phyllis Somerville

Harmony Korine

Lucas Till

Director: Chan-wook Park

Writer: Wentworth Miller

India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) loses both her father and best friend Richard (Dermot Mulroney) in a car accident. As she deals with that loss, her Uncle Charlie comes to live with her and her emotionally challenged mother, played by Nicole Kidman. Soon it becomes obvious that Uncle Charlie has ulterior motives for moving into the home. Instead of being horrified or offended by her uncle, India is infatuated with him.   

CAST

Nicole Kidman

Colin Firth

Hiroyuki Sanada

Stellan Skarsard

Jeremy Irvine

Sam ReidMarta Dusseldorp

Tom Hobbs

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

Writers: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson

Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) was one of many Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during World War II.  Years later, he meets a beautiful woman (Nicole Kidman) on a train and falls in love with her. Determined to help Eric rid himself of his demons she discovers that the Japanese officer who tortured him is still alive.

CAST

 Nicole Kidman

Milo Ventimiglia

Tim Roth

Parker Posey

Paz Vega

Frank Langella

Derek Jacobi

Geraldine Somerville

Robert Lindsay

Director: Olivier Dahan

Writer: Arash Amel

The story of Hollywood actress Grace Kelley’s crisis of identity during a political dispute between Monoco and France’s Charles De Gaulle, when the French leader went to the brink of ordering an invasion of Monaco.

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