Jack Thompson
30 titles
Filmography
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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.

Faraway Downs
The story centers on an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and sell an unusual asset: a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback called ‘Faraway Downs’. Following the death of her husband, a ruthless Australian cattle baron, King Carney (Bryan Brown), plots to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Hugh Jackman) to protect her ranch. The sweeping adventure romance is explored through the eyes of young Nullah (newcomer Brandon Walters), a bi-racial Indigenous Australian child caught up in the government's draconian racial policy now referred to as the “Stolen Generations.” Together the trio experiences four life-altering years, a love affair between Lady Ashley and the Drover, and the unavoidable impact of World War II on Northern Australia.

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...

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.

December Boys
(2007)In the late 1960s four orphans leave their orphanage for a holiday by the sea on the South Australian coast. When rumour gets out that two of the seaside residents are looking to adopt one of the orphans, friendships are tested.

Original Sin
(2001)In this erotic thriller, a beautiful, mail-order bride plays a long con on her new, wealthy husband but love and passion were not part of the plan.

Last Dance
(1996)A young lawyer from a wealthy family tries to save the life of a woman on death row.

Swinging Safari
(2018)In 1970s Australia, a 200-ton blue whale washes up on a local beach in a community filled with boxed wine, bad hair and good times.

The Good German
(2006)HD. A journalist in post-World War II Berlin is caught in a web of deception and murder involving his former mistress in this stylish thriller.

Leatherheads
(2008)Football fever strikes when the aging star of a struggling pro team recruits a college superstar in this nostalgic screwball comedy. George Clooney.