Jack Thompson
22 titles
Filmography
22 results

The Sum of Us
(1994)A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."

The Club
(1980)The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.

McLeod's Daughters
(1996)After her mother's death, Tess travels to a rural cattle station in South Australia in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged father and sister.

Breaker Morant
(1980)During the Boer War, an English-Australian lieutenant is tried for war crimes after executing captured Boers and a German missionary.

Mad Dog Morgan
(1976)Set in gold rush-era Victoria, and based on the true story of infamous Irish outlaw Dan Morgan (Dennis Hopper) a prospector who turns to crime after failing at gold mining, he spends six brutal years in prison before terrorising country Victoria with a young Aboriginal man (David Gulpilil)

Around the Block
(2013)An Australian inner-city teen discovers his passion for acting but must stand up to his family. Meanwhile, his teacher deals with her struggles.

Mystery Road
(2013)An indigenous Australian detective goes to the Outback after the murder of an indigenous girl on a remote road and finds no one willing to give clues.

High Ground
(2021)In a bid to save his family, a young Aboriginal man teams up with an ex-soldier to track down his uncle, the most dangerous warrior in the territory.

A Far Off Place
(1993)A Far Off Place is based on a pair of books by novelist Laurens Van der Post. Reese Witherspoon stars as Nonnie Parker, a young girl living on an African game preserve with her parents. Ethan Embry is Harry Winslow, the snooty son of a visiting dignitary.
Caddie
(1976)A 1920s Australian mother works as a barmaid, and a bookie and another man enter her life.

Turtle Beach
(1992)A photojournalist covering Vietnamese refugees in Malaysia finds more than a story as the journey challenges her loyalties and changes her life.

Flesh + Blood
(1985)In medieval Europe, Agnes, a young girl from a noble family, becomes obsessed with her captors—a band of mercenaries hungry for revenge.

Never Too Late
(2020)Four Vietnam War veterans, who once escaped a POW camp, now feel the same need to escape the retirement home they live in together and dislike.

Excess Baggage
(1997)When a lonely rich girl fakes her own kidnapping to get her father’s attention, a car thief accidentally drives off with her—and real chaos begins.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
(2010)A girl believes creatures were released in her basement.

Blue World Order
(2017)In a post-apocalyptic world caused by nuclear war, Jake Slater must find a way to keep his daughter alive, as she is the only child left on Earth.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
(1983)In 1942, British officer Major Jack Celliers is captured by Japanese soldiers, and after a brutal trial sent, physically debilitated but indomitable in mind, to a POW camp overseen by the zealous Captain Yonoi. Celliers' stubbornness sees him locked in a battle of wills with the camp's new commandant, a man obsessed with discipline and the glory of Imperial Japan.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
(1997)The most important party of the Savannah Christmas season ends with a bang! When affable host Jim Williams shoots a man to death. The party is over, the investigation begins.

The Light Between Oceans
(2016)A lighthouse keeper and his wife raise a baby after finding her in a rowboat but must make a life-changing decision when they meet the child's biological mother on the mainland.

The Man from Snowy River
(1982)After his father is killed in a tragic accident, young Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) has to leave themountains, where he has grown up, to look for work. He makes the acquaintance of grizzled prospectorSpur, and Spurs more respectable brother Harrison (both played by Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas Spartacus). When Jim falls for Harrisons daughter, however, the old man doesnt approve. But Ji...