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28 May 2000 (USA)
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Well, the world has finally managed to blow itself up. Only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction...
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Nuclear War
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Fictional War
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Another 7 wins
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5 nominations
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Shocking. This movie lets you realise that the end of mankind is not unthinkable...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Armand Assante | ... | Cmdr. Dwight Towers |
 | Rachel Ward | ... | Moira Davidson |
 | Bryan Brown | ... | Dr. Julian Osborne |
 | Jacqueline McKenzie | ... | Mary Davidson Holmes |
 | Grant Bowler | ... | Lt. Peter Holmes |
| Allison Webber | ... | Jenny Holmes |
| Tieghan Webber | ... | Jenny Holmes |
 | Steve Bastoni | ... | First Officer Neil Hirsch |
 | David Ross Paterson | ... | Chief Wawrzeniak (as David Paterson) |
| Kevin Copeland | ... | Sonarman Bobby Swain |
| Todd MacDonald | ... | Radioman Giles |
| Joe Petruzzi | ... | Lt. Tony Garcia |
| Craig Beamer | ... | Crewman Reid |
 | Jonathan Oldham | ... | Crewman Parsons |
| Trent Huen | ... | Crewman Samuel Huynh |
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195 min | 60 min (3 episodes)
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The Los Angeles class submarine in this movie uses a "caterpillar" (silent) drive as was used by the Soviet submarine Red October in The Hunt for Red October (1990).
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Revealing mistakes: When Commander Towers is retrieving the DVD from the laptop, there is a closeup on the dead reporter. However, in the scene her eyelid is twitching, indicating she is not dead.
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Cmdr. Dwight Towers:
I carried warheads on my boat. That is correct. I was damn proud of it too. I served my country the best way I know how. And the only question I ask myself these days and I'm asking it every single millisecond now whatever the hell's left of what I've got...
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Remake of On the Beach (1959)
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In the Mood
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What would I do when I was confronted with my certain death and the end of mankind? That question was getting more and more to me when I watched On The Beach. Very confronting and on the eve of a war in Iraq, not at all unthinkable.
The plot is simple: War has broke out (in this case between the US and China, but it could be Iraq or North-Korea too...) and the US strikes with nuclear weapons. Australia gets spared initially, but its inhabitants face certain death as clouds of radio active fall-out nears. Within two months, no one human will be alive. Unless... There is a chance that some people close to the north pole survived. An American nuclear submarine that survived the war is boarded by an Aussie liaison officer and a cynical scientist, that used to date the sister-in-law of the officer, to search for possible survivors.
Not much action, but for those who like to think while watching a movie, this film will stick to you. There are story lines that resemble soap opera's. That might be true on the surface, but it is completely different when you keep in mind that they all are going to die. You feel the difficulties in the way the characters choose to die.
The movie is played well, directed well and has great photography. The director uses several filming techniques that are rarely used so that the viewer gets time to think about the situation and feel the dilemma of the character.
Unless you cannot bear to be confronted with your own mortality, this is a must-see.