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Two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island and grow up together, unaware of their sexual maturity. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, plot summary, and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
- Randal Kleiser
- 2 min
The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American dramatic coming-of-age romantic survival film directed by Randal Kleiser from a screenplay written by Douglas Day Stewart based on the 1908 novel of the same name by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The film stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins.
Synopsis. It is the Victorian era in the South Pacific. Two young children, cousins Richard and Emmeline Lestrange are sailing with Richard's father, Arthur, to San Francisco. When the ship suddenly catches fire, the ship's cook, Paddy Button, gathers the children in a lifeboat and rows away from the wreck.
Seven-year-old cousins Emmeline (Elva Josephson) and Richard (Glenn Kohan) survive a shipwreck and find themselves marooned on a beautiful island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Under the tutelage...
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- Randal Kleiser
- R
- Brooke Shields
100K subscribers. Subscribed. 5.3K. 2.4M views 10 years ago. Release Date: June 20, 1980 The lush beauty and splendor of a South Pacific paradise is vividly captured in this version ...more.
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Roger Ebert calls The Blue Lagoon the dumbest movie of the year, a wildly idealized romance that shows how two kids grow up on a Pacific island. He criticizes the film's unconvincing details, prurient motives, and enraging ending.
What is the Blue Lagoon? The Blue Lagoon is a geothermal spa located in Grindavík, Iceland. It was formed as a result of excess water from the nearby geothermal power plant. It eventually opened up for visitors to use after healing minerals such silica and sulphur were found in the water.
