Stuart Beattie Stuart Beattie i(A100964 works by)
Born: Established: 1972 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon The Last Days of Saigon Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Phillip Noyce ) Australia United States of America (USA) : Ulladulla Films Australia Foryor Entertainment , 2024 27665909 2024 series - publisher film/TV war literature
1 2 form y separately published work icon Interceptor Matthew Reilly , Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Matthew Reilly ) Australia : Ambience Entertainment , 2022 21431082 2022 single work film/TV thriller

'One Army captain must use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attack threatens the remote missile interceptor station she is in command of.'

Source: Production blurb.

1 5 form y separately published work icon Danger Close : The Battle of Long Tan Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Kriv Stenders ) Australia : Brainstorm Media Full Clip Productions Red Dune Films , 2019 9188867 2019 single work film/TV

A film centred on the Battle of Long Tan, on the 18th of August 1966.

1 19 form y separately published work icon Deadline Gallipoli Stuart Beattie , Shaun Grant , Jacquelin Perske , Cate Shortland , ( dir. Michael Rymer ) Australia : Full Clip Productions Matchbox Pictures , 2015 7480530 2015 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction war literature

'The story of journalists Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Philip Schuler, sent with the troops to Gallipoli in 1915, and how their quest for the truth helped change the war’s course – and its legend.' (Production summary)

1 13 form y separately published work icon I, Frankenstein Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Stuart Beattie ) Australia United States of America (USA) : Hopscotch Features Lakeshore Entertainment , 2013 Z1898879 2013 single work film/TV horror science fiction

'Frankenstein's monster, named Adam and having taken the surname of his creator, becomes involved in a war between two immortal clans in an ancient city.'

Source: Screen Australia (http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/news_and_events/2012/ia_121115_MultiplatformClinic.aspx#sthash.hei4xA2U.dpuf). (Sighted: 13/1/2014)

1 40 form y separately published work icon Tomorrow, When the War Began Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Stuart Beattie ) Australia : Ambience Entertainment , 2009 Z1623916 2009 single work film/TV science fiction

Seven teenagers camp in a remote and idyllic location deep in the countryside. But that night, they see the sky filled with military aircraft, and return home to find their houses deserted and the locals detained in the showground. Escaping detection, the teenagers form themselves into a guerilla unit, hoping to prevent the invading Coalition Nations from bringing any more troops in by destroying the only bridge to nearby Cobbler's Bay, where the troop ships are moored.

1 form y separately published work icon G.I. Joe : The Rise of Cobra Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Stephen Sommers ) United States of America (USA) : Di Bonaventura Pictures , 2009 6909758 2009 single work film/TV science fiction adventure

'An elite military unit codenamed G.I. Joe battles an arms dealer with plans for world domination.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/837839). (Sighted: 14/1/2014)

2 126 form y separately published work icon Australia Baz Luhrmann , Stuart Beattie , Ronald Harwood , Richard Flanagan , ( dir. Baz Luhrmann ) Sydney : Bazmark Films , 2008 Z1531345 2008 single work film/TV (taught in 8 units)

At the beginning of World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley travels from her home in England to Northern Australia to confront her husband, whom she believes is having an affair. He is in the country to oversee the selling of his enormous cattle station, Faraway Downs. Her husband sends Drover, an independent stockman, to transport her to Faraway Downs. When Lady Sarah arrives at the station, however, she finds that her husband has been murdered (allegedly by King George, an Aboriginal elder) and that cattle station manager Neil Fletcher is trying to gain control of Faraway Downs, so that Lesley 'King' Carney will have a complete cattle monopoly in the Northern Territory.

Lady Sarah is captivated by Nullah (King George's grandson) son of an Aboriginal mother and an unknown white father. When Nullah tells her that he has seen her cattle being driven onto Carney's land, Fletcher beats him. Lady Sarah fires Fletcher, deciding to try to run the cattle station herself. To save the property from Carney, she enlists the aid of Drover; together, they drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land. In the course of the journey, she falls in love with both Drover and the Australian landscape.

Lady Sarah, Nullah, and Drover live together happily at Faraway Downs for two years, while Fletcher (the actual murderer of Lady Sarah's husband and very likely the father of Nullah) kills Carney, marries his daughter, and takes over Carney's cattle empire. When the authorities send Nullah to live on Mission Island with the other half-Aboriginal children, Lady Sarah is devastated. In the meantime, she works as a radio operator in Darwin.

When the Japanese attack the island and Darwin in 1942, Lady Sarah fears that Nullah has been killed and Drover, who had quarrelled with Lady Sarah and left the station, believes Lady Sarah has been killed. Learning of Nullah's abduction to Mission Island, however, he sets out to rescue him. Lady Sarah decides to sell Faraway Downs to Fletcher and return to England. Drover and Nulla sail back into port at Darwin as Lady Sarah is about to depart, and the three are reunited. Fletcher, distraught at the death of his wife, attempts to shoot Nullah, but is speared by King George and dies.

1 form y separately published work icon 30 Days of Night Stuart Beattie , ( dir. David Slade ) United States of America (USA) : Ghost House Pictures , 2007 6909394 2007 single work film/TV horror fantasy

'For thirty days every winter, the isolated town of Barrow in Alaska is in complete darkness and most of its inhabitants head south. One winter a mysterious group of strangers appear. They are bloodthirsty vampires ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the residents remaining in town.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/832149). (Sighted: 14/1/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Derailed Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Mikael Håfström ) United States of America (USA) : Di Bonaventura Pictures Miramax Films Patalex V Productions , 2005 6908704 2005 single work film/TV thriller crime

'Commercials director Charles meets business executive Lucinda on the train into Chicago one morning when he forgets his wallet and she offers to pay for his ticket. Though both are married, they start having an affair, but when they book into a hotel one night, they find themselves on the wrong side of an obsessive and violent criminal.'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/799187). (Sighted: 14/1/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Collateral Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Michael Mann ) United States of America (USA) : Parkes/MacDonald Productions Edge City Films , 2004 6907221 2004 single work film/TV crime thriller

'A hitman forces a Los Angeles taxi driver to take him to each of five hits he must make during one night. The FBI and the LAPD give chase.'

Source: BFI. (Sighted: 13/1/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Kick Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Lynda Heys ) Australia : Carmelina Pictures Blackwood Films , 1998 6906790 1998 single work film/TV

'James Grant is the most admired school captain ever bred at Lawley Grammar, the most legendary rugby captain to ever lead the First Fifteen and the Dux of the school. James is on the path to success, and nothing is going to stop him...except one small thing. James loves to ballet dance. He secretly auditions for a small ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet and wins the part. James' other world is falling apart...his girlfriend wants to break up and his coach forces him to play a match that's scheduled on the same day as the performance. To make matters worse, the ballet is now to be performed at the Opera House, in front of thousands ...'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 13/1/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Body Armor The Protector Stuart Beattie , Dee McLachlan , ( dir. Jack Gill ) United States of America (USA) : Crystal Sky Worldwide Krago's Island , 1998 6906507 1998 single work film/TV crime adventure

A soldier-of-fortune is recruited to uncover the perfidious schemes of a research scientist.

1 form y separately published work icon Joey Stuart Beattie , ( dir. Ian Barry ) Australia : Pratt Films , 1997 Z1341372 1997 single work film/TV children's

A children's adventure story about a lonely boy's love for kangaroos. Billy lives with his widowed mother on a Queensland farm. One day, much to Billy's dismay, his mean-spirited neighbour has a group of kangaroos drugged and removed from his property. A young kangaroo of whom Billy has grown fond is left behind without a mother. Billy teams up with Linda, the free-spirited daughter of an American ambassador, and the two youths head to Sydney to reunite Joey with the kidnapped kangaroos.

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