The Blue Lagoon
1980
A remake of the 1949 original, which tells of a boy and a girl who become ship-wrecked on an exotic tropical island. As they grow up they learn how to fend for themselves, and as the years roll by their childish affection turns into an innocent love. But all is not what it seems... Read more
| Starring | Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels |
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| Director | Randal Kleiser |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Blue Lagoon
A remake of the 1949 original, which tells of a boy and a girl who become ship-wrecked on an exotic tropical island. As they grow up they learn how to fend for themselves, and as the years roll by their childish affection turns into an innocent love. But all is not what it seems...
| Starring | Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels |
|---|---|
| Director | Randal Kleiser |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 13 Oct 2003 Production year: 1980 |
| Format | DVD |
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Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins play the youngsters who are shipwrecked on a deserted island in this remake of a 1949 British film directed by Frank Launder. Here, teenage self-discovery and love ensue as they grow up isolated from the world in a Swiss Family Robinson-style shack. It's beautifully shot and there's much nudity and suggested sex, but it's all very, very silly, as the love birds conform to traditional marriage-and-baby values — strange for a couple with no sociological context to draw on. For the under 20s only.
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Remake with poor narrative balance and a great deal of nudity and adolescent frankness about sex. Adolescents are probably its only audience.
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Experiencing adolescence
Filmed on one of the Fijian islands this picture has a paradise backdrop, but all is not paradise for the survivors of a ship wreck. The cook and a young boy (Christoper Atkins) and young girl (Brooke Shields) are washed ashore. The boy and girl have to learn to cope with adolescence without any knowledge, and also without social rules.
A escapist movie for a rainy afternoon or an evening in with the girls.
Do watch the extras. It was modern interviews, so with a gap of 20 years or so, a facinating look back to her childhood for Brooke Shields - who really was nearly as naive as her character when she started filming. Also included a more honest than usual account of how they selected Christopher Atkins for the part including his audition tape showing him without the blond perm. -
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An Earthly Paradise
This is of course a typical Adam and Eve story. When the children are forced to abandon the ship they were travelling to California along with the ship's cook after a fire destroyed it, they find themselves on an apparently deserted island but it is clear that this is no earthly paradise when a cache of skulls was uncovered. The cook did his best to show them how to live in their new world while trying to make sure they retained their civilised values. All too soon, though, the children are left on their own with only the commandment not to go to 'the other side of the island'. As the years pass, the children grow up in innocence of what the changes in their bodies meant. Eventually they found themselves lovers without being aware of the consequences nine months down the line. But even as Emmy was giving birth, her cousin was finding the true worshippers of god and why cook had told them never to go to the other side of the island.... The older children are played by Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins who were in their late teens at the time which made some of their early teen tantrums appear rather unnatural if otherwise rather impressively OTT.
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Brooke gets Cruise apology
- 04 Sep 2006
As Brooke Shields knows all too well, new father Tom Cruise doesn't spend all his time playing happy families and being Mr Nice Guy. In addition to doting on newly-born daughter Suri and his actress wife Katie Holmes, Cruise also spends his time engaging with his pseudo-religion of scientology – to the detriment of Shields. The 41-year-old star of The Blue Lagoon and Endless Love was criticised by Cruise last year for using post-natal anti-depressant drugs. He argued that she should have... Read more
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A remake of the 1949 original, which tells of a boy and a girl who become ship-wrecked on an exotic tropical island. As they grow up they learn how to fend for themselves, and as the years roll by ... -