Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach (1992)

記者のジュディス・ウィルクスは、夫と二人の息子をシドニーに残し、ベトナム人ボートピープルの取材のためマレーシアへ向かう。彼女はカナンと恋に落ち、ミヌー・ホブデイ夫人と親しくなる。ホブデイ夫人は、難民たちが密かに上陸を試みる「タートルビーチ」で、いつか自分の子供たちがやって来ることを願いながら、定期的に夜通し見張りをしていた。ある夜、ミヌーに同行したジュディスは、マレーシア人による残虐な虐殺を目撃する。それがきっかけで、彼女はビドンの強制収容所の惨状を暴き出すことになる。

公開日
1992-03-19
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (15)
上映時間（分）
1時間30分
ジャンル
スリラー, ドラマ
監督
Stephen Wallace

キャスト

豆知識

  • 興行収入：A$35.9万
  • 原作：Turtle Beach
  • 撮影地：シドニー、タイ王国

Turtle Beach, also known as The Killing Beach, is a 1992 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace and starring Greta Scacchi and Joan Chen. The screenplay was written by Ann Turner, based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Blanche d'Alpuget. It caused controversy in Malaysia, where the government took exception to scenes of Malays executing refugees.

Production

Ann Turner was working for Roadshow when she was hired to adapt the novel, which she loved. However she says the project soon became compromised:

When I first saw the film I thought it looked like the writer was on drugs or completely insane, because you could see there were two films working within the one film... There were a lot of different voices in terms of the finance-raising, there was American money, and the producers—many, plural—really had very different views of what the film should be. Greta Scacchi really liked the book and liked the script and fought for it.

The film was financed in part by the people who had invested in Blood Oath, directed by Stephen Wallace. They were enthusiastic about that film and hired Wallace to direct. Wallace:

I loved the book and I really wanted to make the film. I think in the end the script really wasn't good enough and I had a terrible run-in with the producer on it. It was just a nightmare. I wanted to make a film about Asia again, because I thought Asia was misunderstood in Australia and I thought the more light we can shed on Asians, the better... But unfortunately in the film, it all went haywire ...

The Australian Film Finance Corporation invested $5,248,857 in the film.

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