Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace, the movie, opens in the US today, and looks like another promising evangelistic opportunity.
From the movie web site:
Ioan Gruffudd plays William Wilberforce, who, as a Member of Parliament, navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Albert Finney plays John Newton, a confidante of Wilberforce who inspires him to pursue a life of service to humanity. Benedict Cumberbatch is William Pitt the Younger, England's youngest ever Prime Minister at the age of 24, who encourages his friend Wilberforce to take up the fight to outlaw slavery and supports him in his struggles in Parliament.
As you could guess from the movie's title, the story behind the great hymn Amazing Grace is woven into this political story.
According to one early Christian review I've seen, the movie takes a few artistic licenses in some places, and reading John Piper's new book Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce would be very worthwhile in conjunction with seeing the movie.
As yet I have not been able to track down an Australian relese date.