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Release year: 2000

Storyline

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

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Directors

Russell Mulcahy

Writers

Cast

Armand Assante — Cmdr. Dwight Towers
Rachel Ward — Moira Davidson
Bryan Brown — Dr. Julian Osborne
Jacqueline McKenzie — Mary Davidson Holmes

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Did you know

• Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown are husband and wife in real life. This marks their fourth on-screen collaboration.

• Bill Hunter who stars as the PM of Australia, was in the original On the Beach (1959) as an uncredited swimming double. Bill claimed that on this film he was inspired to take up acting after watching one of the leads (variously claimed to be either Gregory Peck or Fred Astaire) do 27 takes of a scene, and thinking he could do better.

• The "caterpillar drive" for nuclear submarines exists only in the imaginations of author Tom Clancy (from "Hunt for Red October") and the screenwriters of the Australian remake of On the Beach (2000).