On the Beach (2000 film)
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| Approx. run time | 195 minutes |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Directed by | Russell Mulcahy |
| Starring | Armand Assante Bryan Brown Rachel Ward Mark Pennell Grant Bowler |
| Country | United States Australia |
| Language | English |
| Release date | 2000 |
On The Beach is a post-apocalyptic television movie released in 2000. It is a remake of the 1959 film, and is based on the book by Nevil Shute. It starred Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward who was nominated for a Golden Globe award for best leading actress in television movie or mini-series. It was directed by Russell Mulcahy.
The film updates the setting of the story to the then-future of 2007, starting with placing the crew on the fictional Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charleston (SSN-704). (There has never been a submarine named USS Charleston, and SSN-704 is named Baltimore.) More notably, the morse code signal picked up by the submarine crew in the original novel and film was updated to an automated digital broadcast powered by a solar powered laptop. The ending also differs from both the novel and the first film version in that Towers chooses to die with Moira instead of scuttling the submarine beyond Australian territorial waters, as in the book, or attempting to return with his crew to the U.S., as in the earlier film.
