Australian actress Abbie Cornish will play a modern-day New Yorker, who becomes obsessed with King Edward's decision to abdicate for his lover.

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Fantastic Mr Fox goes up against films including the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man, Abbie Cornish's Bright Star and Viggo Mortensen's The Road.

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In 1818, a half-educated but boldly self-possessed beauty named Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) captures the admiration, and then the love, of a tubercular young man (Ben Whishaw).

NEWYORKER: Bright Star

The women, including Abbie Cornish, are treated abominably.

NEWYORKER: Seven Psychopaths

There is the tale of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, as W. and E. became, intercut with that of Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a wretchedly married woman living in Manhattan in the late nineteen-nineties and fixated on the myth of Mrs.

NEWYORKER: Material Girls