Watch Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), rated NR, movie showing on September 2, 2010 in theaters wide. Tomorrow, When the War Began is an Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction and Family film. Tomorrow, When the War Began movie stars are Caitlin Stasey as Ellie Linton, Rachel Hurd-Wood as Corrie McKenzie, Lincoln Lewis as Kevin Holmes, Deniz Akdeniz as Homer Yannos, Phoebe Tonkin as Fiona Maxwell, Chris Pang as Lee Takkan, Ashleigh Cummings as Robyn Mathers, Andy Ryan as Chris Lang, Colin Friels as Dr. Clements, Pek Ang and Julia Yon as Mr. and Mrs. Takkam respectively, Matthew Dale as Mr. Coles, Andrew Liam Pringle as Nolan Baumson & Masa Yamaguchi as a sergeant and directed by Stuart Beattie. The film begins with a video log by Ellie. She asks the camera how she can tell their story. She suggests to herself "from the beginning."
Country high school student Ellie (Caitlin Stacey) sets off on a camping trip with close childhood friend Corrie (Rachel Hurd-Wood), together with Corrie's boyfriend Kevin, Ellie's next-door neighbour Homer, love interest Lee and friends Robyn and Fi. After driving Ellie's parents' Land Rover into the mountains, they hike down into a remote valley known as "Hell".
During their first night camping, Ellie wakes to the smell of jet fuel and a sky full of military aircraft. The next day, the group dismisses it as a training exercise by the Royal Australian Air Force, despite Robyn and Lee counting several dozen waves of aircraft. The group spend the rest of the day in Hell and decide to head back the next day.
Upon arriving back at Ellie's house, the group finds Ellie's dog dead of starvation and the house abandoned, with power, internet and telephone lines down. They find the same at Homer's and Corrie's houses. They visit Robyn's house that night, which is in their home town of Wirrawee and has a large hill overlooking the town. From the hill, the group sees that the only lights on in town are at the hospital and the showground. They decide to split up, with Homer and Fi checking Fi's house, Lee and Robyn checking Lee's restaurant, and Ellie, Corrie and Kevin investigating the showground.
Ellie, Corrie and Kevin head to the showground, where they find the citizens of the town being detained. Ellie witnesses a man being executed with a shot to the head, and in her horror retreats too quickly, being spotted by a searchlight on top of a sentry tower. They flee amid a torrent of bullets, but are pursued by soldiers into the backyard of a house. Ellie, using Kevin's singlet, lighter and the fuel tank of a ride-on lawn mower, create an explosion that eliminates the squad and blows a soldier toward them. While salvaging the Kalashnikov rifle from the soldier's body, Ellie discovers that the soldier is female and remarks that she couldn't be much older then herself.
On return to Corrie's house, they find that Lee and Robyn are missing. Ellie is erratic and demands that they look for them, but Homer is able to convince her to wait until the next night to go looking for them, as it is daylight and there will be patrols. While sitting, conversing in their childhood playhouse, Ellie and Corrie witness an Australian F/A-18 Hornet get shot down by enemy aircraft. Whilst the group gathers inside to plan for their return to Hell, an enemy helicopter performs a close examination of the house after Flip, Kevin's dog, gives them away. Homer shoots at and damages the helicopter, which retreats after dropping flares. On the sound of an approaching jet engine, the group realise that the helicopter has marked the house for an airstrike. They barely escape with their lives, with the home destroyed by bombs.
That night, Ellie and Homer sneak back into town and find Robyn in her house, who tells them Lee has been shot in the leg and is in his family's Thai restaurant in town. Ellie and Robyn find Lee as his wound is being treated by Dr Clements (Colin Friels), the local dentist, who informs them that the invading forces are bringing in their vehicles and equipment from ships moored in Cobbler's Bay over the Wirrawee Bridge, and that many survivors had 'paid the price' for their heroism, including attempts to destroy the bridge. After Dr Clements bandages Lee's leg and leaves, Robyn, Homer and Ellie decide to use a garbage truck to extract Lee in a bucket on the front, since he is unable to walk. After a brief skirmish with a pair of armed buggies, Ellie drives them to the safety of the church and meets up with Homer, who has stolen an Audi as their getaway car. They all meet back up at Corrie's home. After a brief emotional moment at the wreckage of Corrie's home the group decided to return to Hell.
Whilst driving Ellie begins to fall asleep and realises that she is too tired to continue, and decides to rest at a random house on the way. There, they are greeted by school mate Chris, who is incredibly stoned and has no idea that a war is going on. Chris is put on watch while everyone rests. Lee and Ellie chat, and after it becomes clear he has feelings for her, they kiss. Her mind in turmoil, Ellie retreats downstairs to find Chris asleep on watch. She observes an armed convoy passing the house and then wakes Chris up violently, reprimands him for risking their lives, and threatens him with the rifle. The confrontation is interrupted by the others.
The group returns to Hell, with plans to use it as a secluded hideout where the enemy forces will not find them. While there, they hear a radio transmission revealing that Australia has been invaded by a coalition of forces from nearby Asia, who believe that they have a right to the country's natural resources. The transmission also reveals one of the three main ports being used to deposit soldiers into the country is nearby Cobbler's Bay, the only exit from which is the Heron Bridge, which the group then makes plans to destroy. Although the group agrees to take a risk by focus their efforts into resisting the invasion through guerilla tactics, Robyn is troubled and reveals her religious beliefs preclude her from killing someone.
The group sneaks back to Wirrawee, and devise a plan to blow up Heron Bridge based on ideas previously put together by Homer and his mates before the war. Ellie and Fi steal a petrol tanker from the council depot, but the hole they leave in the wire fence of the depot alerts patrolling guards, and Ellie and Fi barely escape with the large tanker. They park it near the bridge and, while waiting for the rest of the team to take their positions, begin talking about relationships. In doing so, Fi absentmindedly switches off the radio. Robyn, who is posted as a lookout with Chris, observes the guards from the depot sneaking up behind the tanker and cannot get hold of Ellie and Fi on the radio. When one of the soldiers appears at Fi's window, Fi hits him in the face, and they rush to drive the tanker forward under the bridge. The plan necessarily brought forward, Homer and Lee scare a herd of cattle onto the bridge, forcing the sentry guards to flee their posts, allowing Ellie to park the tanker under the bridge unhindered.
Ellie soaks a length of rope in petrol and drags it away from the tanker. As they do so, Fi realises she doesn't have the lighter. Just at that moment, the guard force comes within firing range and force Ellie and Fi to retreat. Realising the situation, Robyn takes Chris' rifle and guns down the guard force, overcoming her inhibition towards killing. The guard force that had been chased off the bridge by the cattle begin to run back towards them from the bridge. With Corrie, Kevin, Homer and Lee pinned down, Chris runs to Ellie and lights the rope with his cigarette lighter. They then run to safety to watch the explosion with Robyn.
Meanwhile, Corrie, Kevin, Homer and Lee are pinned down by automatic fire. Kevin flees and returns with the motorcycles, securing Corrie's trust in him. Homer and Lee ride away, and as Corrie is getting on Kevin's bike she tells him she loves him, and is shot in the back. Kevin rides away, and the petrol tanker explodes, destroying the bridge.
Back at Homer's house, Ellie, Fi, Chris and Robyn learn that Corrie has been seriously wounded and needs to go to hospital. Despite certain capture, Kevin decides to drive Corrie to the hospital and remain by her side, rather than abandon her at the doorstep. After a tearful farewell, the group return to Hell. Ellie then finishes her video log, revealing their ongoing guerilla war, the necessity to fight, and that they have not been found, meaning that Kevin and Corrie never gave them away. She once again questions whether their actions have truly been right or wrong, and the film ends. The film is distributed by Paramount Pictures. So download free Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010) movie online.
Filming began in the Hunter Region of New South Wales Australia on 28 September 2009 with early shooting in Dungog. Raymond Terrace was chosen as a major location for producing the film as it is "a great country town". Historic King Street, the former main street of the town, was transformed from a normally quiet location into Main Street, Wirrawee. The street began its transformation in September 2009, with set areas including the "Wirrawee Cinema" and the Lee family's Asian restaurant. Filming began in King Street on 21 October 2009 and continued until 27 October 2009. Filming in other locations in the town ended on 6 November 2009.
Other filming locations included Maitland, the Blue Mountains and the Luskintyre bridge. The Fox Studios site in Sydney was also utilised. The explosions of the house and bridge were filmed, scaled-down, at Terrey Hills in northern Sydney.
The film received generally positive reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 80% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 20 reviews, with an average score of 6.3/10. Critical consensus was that the film was "compelling" and "very faithful to the novel", with particular attention paid to the execution of action scenes, though occasionally suffered from "clunky" dialogue.
The film debuted at #1 and made $3.86 million during its first weekend in Australia and grossed $358,653 with a #1 debut in New Zealand.
Two sequels based on the novels The Dead of The Night and The Third Day, The Frost are expected to be filmed simultaneously sometime in the future.
