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Coming Up from Down Under (1983)

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clip 'A sculptured quality' education content clip 3

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Clip description

American actor Dustin Hoffman says he wishes he could have been in Australia during the 1975-1983 renaissance. LA Times critic Charles Champlin says that Australian films have 'a discipline, a sculptured quality’. He refers particularly to Breaker Morant (1979). A clip is included.