'Australia' Clocking in at Nearly Three Hours Long

It certainly has the look of an epic and the feel of an epic and now we've learned that Australia has the running time of an epic. Hollywood Elsewhere reports that tickets have gone on sale down under for the Baz Luhrmann film starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, and while a couple of ticket sales website differ on exactly how long it is, "one reports a duration of 170 minutes; the other reports 177 minutes."If you're slow at time math, that's three hours, with trailers and all the rest. For comparison, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is about 168 minutes, while The Godfather clocks in at 175, Schindler's List goes 209 minutes (three-and-a-half hours) and Lawrence of Arabia is twenty minutes shy of four hours. So, Australia is long, but it's not a record breaker or anything.However, the film has not been officially rated and timed by the MPAA so until that happens we won't have the exact time, as if it matters once you're over two-and-a-half hours.Australia will be released on November 26th in the U.S.

Comments

[Sensaes]

Sweet Jesus... It must be some sort of revenge for sending all those crims out there.

[Get The Big Picture]

I laughed out loud at that; thank you very much.

[Alien]

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[Lengthy Johnson]

I, who really don't need another reason not to see this film, just got one.

[AussieFan]

According to Anne Thompson, it will be between 2:30 and 2:40. This link gives dates for screenings, and Hugh and Nicole will be on Oprah on Nov. 10.

http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/11/australia-where .html