Release Date: 2006-05-05
NYC and/or LA Release
Distributors: First Look Studios
Directors: John Hillcoat
Actors : Danny Huston, Emily Watson, Guy Pearce, John Hurt, Ray Winstone
Status:
Film Genre(s): Drama, Action, Western
Australia
SYNOPSIS
Set against the harsh and unforgiving landscape of the 1880s Australian outback, The Proposition is a visually stunning tale of loyalty, revenge and the quest for justice in a lawless land. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is a renegade. Along with his two brothers, Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mikey (Richard Wilson), he is wanted for murder. When Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) captures Charlie and Mikey, he offers Charlie a proposition in an attempt to end the brutality that surrounds them -- the only way to save Mikey from the noose is for Charlie to track down and kill Arthur, his psychotic older brother. An impossible moral dilemma leads to a murderous climax.PREVIEW NOTES
- Guy Pearce is set to star in Nick Cave's new Australian film which starts filming early next year. - 2003-09-18
- Production Weekly reports that Liam Neeson will topline the pic. - 2004-05-11
- Screen Daily reports that the film won four prizes at Australia's people's choice awards. - 2005-11-23
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
