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View larger Ned Kelly Starring: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts, Joel Edgerton Directed by: Neil Jordan Screenplay by: Neil Jordan Release Date: March 26th, 2004 Running Time: 109 minutes MPAA Rating: R for violence and brief nudity. Studio: Focus Features  Box-Office Totals Domestic: $86,959 (1.3%) Foreign: $6,498,557 (98.7%) Total: $6,585,516 (Worldwide) Box-Office Charts   Subscribe to Movies Central by Email  Subscribe in any reader  Check out Feed Central

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Tagline: A film about a legendary outlaw whose story outgrew his life. Based on Peter Carey's best-selling book about the legendary Ned Kelly, a notorious, Jesse James-like Australian bandit who, according to Variety, is portrayed less as an outlaw than as a folk hero and freedom fighter. Reteaming for the first time since their breakthrough film Two Hands, director Gregor Jordan and actor Heath Ledger bring moviegoers the true story of their brave and iconoclastic countryman – Irish-Australian legend Edward “Ned” Kelly. In the latter part of the 19th century, Australia is still largely untamed. The former penal colony’s first-generation Irish immigrant population lives in poverty. Having already experienced police brutality and the death of his father, bushranger Ned (Heath Ledger) is wrongfully imprisoned on the trumped-up charge of stealing a horse. Emerging a few years later, in 1874, Ned is hardened but vows to stay straight. Rejoining his widowed mother and younger siblings, he makes money for his family as a champion bare-knuckle boxer. He also toils as a farmhand on the estate of an English landowner – with whose beautiful wife Julia (Naomi Watts) Ned shares a mutual attraction. Read Full Production Notes

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