Tomorrow when the war began.

Based on the first of seven books by acclaimed Australian author, John Marsden, Tomorrow When The War Began is the story of seven teenagers who return from a week-long camping trip to find that Australia has been invaded by a foreign power.

As the group of teens go camping in the bush, dubbed as "Hell" by the locals, for a week, they see planes flying overhead but think nothing of it.

After their week is up they come back to discover their families haven't returned from the Commemoration Day Show. They search each of the teens' homes and discover their pets are either dead or dieing, splitting up to find more clues around town they find that their families are being held up at the show by soldiers. After being startled by a man being shot in plain sight, the group start to run while being followed. As the group hide Ellie blows up a ride-on lawnmower killing 3 soldiers, as she see's the face of a female soldier she realizes they are as scared as they are. The groups return
finding some are missing. The group stay in Corrie's house while waiting for Robyn and Lee to return, but enemy planes spot them moving and bomb the house, while the kids watch in the shed.

Ellie and Homer finally decide to go back into town to find Robyn and Lee. They find them, and discover that Robyn and Lee could not return because Lee had been shot in the leg and was unable to walk. Ellie, Homer, and Robyn form a plan to rescue Lee in the shovel of a bulldozer. After the rescue, they find another friend of theirs, Chris, who has been hiding out since the invasion. He comes with them, although Ellie yells at and kicks him for not taking the war seriously after he falls asleep on sentry duty. They finally get back to Hell, and Ellie and Lee begin a relationship, while Homer and Fi also begin one, but more slowly.

Homer comes up with an idea to fight the enemy their own way - by blowing up the wooden bridge into town. Ellie and Fi steal a petroleum tanker truck, while Homer and Lee stampede a herd of cattle at a passing patrol of soldiers to distract them. Ellie drives the truck under the bridge and runs a rope soaked with petrol a distance away, where Fi lights the makeshift fuse and blows up the bridge. The four of them go to Ellie's house to find the others, and they discover that Corrie has been shot. Kevin volunteers to drive her to the hospital, hoping that the enemy soldiers will treat her wound. The remaining six go back into Hell.....


CAST.

Caitlin Stasey ... Ellie Linton
Rachel Hurd-Wood ... Corrie Mackenzie
Lincoln Lewis ... Kevin Holmes
Deniz Akdeniz ... Homer Yannos
Phoebe Tonkin ... Fiona Maxwell
Chris Pang ... Lee Takkam
Ashleigh Cummings ... Robyn Mathers
Andrew Ryan ... Chris Lang (as Andy Ryan)
Colin Friels ... Dr. Clements