True History of the Kelly Gang

(2019)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 364 votes

Genres: Crime, Drama, Western, Thriller

Year: 2019

Runtime: 124 мин

Country: Australia, France

Director: Джастин Курзель

Cast: Джордж Маккей, Николас Холт, Эсси Дэвис, Рассел Кроу, Чарли Ханнэм, Орландо Швердт, Earl Cave, Sean Keenan, Томасин МакКензи, Rory Collins

Plot

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

This is a fictional account of Ned Kelly's life starting in Australia, 1867, when Ned's a boy. His dad, originally sent from Ireland to an Australian prison colony by the English oppressors, gets arrested for killing a neighbor's cow that Ned killed. Ned saves a boy of rich parents from drowning in the river. The mother offers to pay so Ned can attend the same private boarding school her son attends and get a quality education. Ned's mom rejects it as an attempt of English oppression. When Ned runs off to tell his dad at his cell about his deed, his dad is dead. His mom sends him off with bushranger Harry Power to learn the trade and become a man. This includes shooting Sgt. O'Neil. Ned quits and returns home. He gets 3 years prison for the non-lethal shooting. He comes out of prison a young man and makes a living as a bare fist boxer. Visiting his mom, he returns the dresses his cross-dressing brother stole from a brothel. He meets Mary there. He later becomes an outlaw.