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Sixteen-year-old Irish
immigrant Ned (Heath Ledger) is sentenced to three years in prison for stealing
a horse. After his release he finds work tending to horses owned by Richard Cook
(Nicholas Bell), whose wife (Naomi Watts) grows interested in Ned. Fitzpatrick (Kiri
Paramore) is a police officer with a yen for Ned's sister Kate (Kerry Condon).
When she rejects him, Fitzpatrick steals the family's animals. The brothers are
falsely accused of a crime and go into hiding, leading to the assault and arrest
of their beloved mother. Francis Hare (Geoffrey Rush) is eventually brought on
to stop the gang that becomes famous after a string of bank robberies.
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