Return to the Blue Lagoon
1991
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The Blue Lagoon was theatrically released on June 20, 1980, by Columbia Pictures. The film was panned by critics, who disparaged its screenplay, execution, and Shields' performance, but Almendros' cinematography received praise.
Recently viewed. The Blue Lagoon: Directed by Randal Kleiser. With Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels. In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific.
- Randal Kleiser
- 2 min
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene. On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode.
- The Blue Lagoon is based on a trilogy of books by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. Although the film closely follows the events of the first book in Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s series, also called The Blue Lagoon, the film’s sequel (1991’s Return to the Blue Lagoon) breaks with the storyline presented in the 1920s-era trilogy to essentially re-tell the original story (read: more tanned teens falling in love on a tropical island).
- The Blue Lagoon was adapted into a film twice before. In 1923, director W. Bowden crafted a silent version of the story. More than a quarter-century later, British filmmaker Frank Launder made a very well-received version for the big screen in 1949, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston.
- The Blue Lagoon's costume team came up with a clever trick to keep Brooke Shields covered up. Brooke Shields was just 14 years old when she filmed The Blue Lagoon, which led to some challenges for the production team, especially as Shields’s Emmeline is frequently topless.
- Brooke Shields’s age was an issue for a long time. Even after The Blue Lagoon was long wrapped, completed, and released into theaters, issues related to Shields’s age at the time of filming still lingered.
Jun 7, 2022 · With Randal Kleiser in the director’s seat, the 1980 fantasy romance drama ‘The Blue Lagoon’ is an uneasy return to the age of innocence painted with a degree of existential concern. Set at the turn of the nineteenth century and based on the eponymous novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, the guilty pleasure tale chronicles a shipwreck.
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Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/07/24 Full Review The one who r Iskreno imam ironicnu volju za film, ali to ne sklanja cinjenicu da je Blue Lagoon jako glup film, ne bi te krivio da ...
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Roger Ebert July 03, 1980. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. This movie made me itch. It's about a young girl and a young boy who are shipwrecked on a beautiful Pacific Island. It shows how they grow up, mostly at sunset. It follows their progress as they discover sex and smile sweetly at each other, in that order.
