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''On the Beach'' is a 2000 apocalyptic made-for-television film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Armand Assante, Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward.〔King, Susan. ("Together Again for Apocalypse 'On the Beach'; Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown team on screen for just the second time since marrying 17 years ago." )''Los Angeles Times'', May 26, 2000, p. F1. Retrieved: January 11, 2015.〕 It was originally aired on Showtime.〔Moliltorisz, Sacha. ("TV & Radio: On the Beach." ) ''The Sydney Morning Herald '', April 19, 2007. Retrieved: January 11, 2015.〕 The remake of the 1959 film, was also based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute but updates the setting of the story to the film's then-future of 2005, starting with placing the crew on the fictional ''Los Angeles''-class submarine, USS ''Charleston'' (SSN-704).〔 ==Plot== The USS ''Charleston'' (SSN-704), a 688i variant ''Los Angeles''-class submarine, is equipped with a caterpillar drive and is on station following a nuclear exchange, and is under the command of Captain Dwight Towers. The nuclear war which destroyed the northern hemisphere was preceded by a standoff between the United States and China, after the latter blockaded and later invaded Taiwan, which destroyed both countries. The submarine crew finds refuge in Melbourne, Australia which the radioactive fallout has not yet reached (though radio communications with several radio operators further north than Australia indicate that radiation has reached their countries and will be in Australia in a few months). Commander Towera places his vessel under the command of the Royal Australian Navy, and is summond to attend a briefing. When Captain Dwight Towers (Armand Assante), Australian scientist Julian Osborne (Bryan Brown) and Australian liaison officer Peter Holmes (Grant Bowler) find out there is an automated digital broadcast coming from Alaska in the Northern Hemisphere, the submarine is sent to investigate. En route, the submarine surfaces in San Francisco, where the Golden Gate Bridge has collapsed and the city shoreline is in ruins. A crew member who is from San Francisco abandons ship, planning on dying in his home city, and is left by his shipmates after it is argued that the length of time he has spent outside has already made him sick with radiation sickness. Upon reaching Alaska, Commander Towers and his XO go ashore to find no survivors. Entering a house and seeing a dead family huddled on a bed, Towers thinks of his own family and what they must have gone through. The source of the automated digital broadcast is traced to a television station where Towers and his XO discover the broadcast emminates from a solar powered laptop trying to broadcast a documentary via satellite. Towers returns to Melbourne where Moira Davidson (Rachel Ward) is waiting for him. Realizing the inevitable nuclear cloud will reach Australia, their impending doom begins to unravel the social fabric of the survivors in Australia and anarchy and chaos erupt. Some choose to live their final weeks recklessly in a deadly car race, while others seek a more peaceful means to face the end of their lives. Holmes and his wife (Jacqueline McKenzie) seek solace in their love for each other as Towers and Moira decide to remain together till the end. The remaining crew of the Charleston decide to try and return home, knowing that they may not make it (as the majority are showing signs of advanced radiation sickness). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「On the Beach (2000 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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