The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
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Promotional film poster
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| Directed by | Randal Kleiser |
| Produced by | Randal Kleiser |
| Screenplay by | Douglas Day Stewart |
| Based on |
The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole |
| Starring |
Brooke Shields Christopher Atkins Leo McKern William Daniels |
| Music by | Basil Poledouris |
| Cinematography | Néstor Almendros |
| Edited by | Robert Gordon |
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Columbia Pictures
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.5 million |
| Box office | $58,853,106 (U.S. and Canada only) |
The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romantic adventure drama film directed by Randal Kleiser and filmed on Turtle Island in Fiji. The screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart was based on the 1908 novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The film stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. The music score was composed by Basil Poledouris and the cinematography was by Néstor Almendros.
The film tells the story of two young children marooned on a tropical island paradise in the South Pacific. With neither the guidance nor the restrictions of society, emotional feelings and physical changes arise as they reach puberty and fall in love.
Shields was 14 years old at the time of filming and later testified before a U.S. Congressional inquiry that older body doubles were used in some of her nude scenes. Also, throughout the film in frontal shots her breasts were always covered by her long hair or in other ways. The film received a MPAA rating of R in the United States.
In the Victorian period, two young child cousins, Richard (Glenn Kohan) and Emmeline Lestrange (Elva Josephson), and a galley cook, Paddy Button (Leo McKern), survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropical island. Paddy cares for the small children and forbids them by "law" from going to the other side of the island, as he had found remains from bloody human sacrifices. He also warns them against eating a scarlet berry which is apparently deadly. (He calls it the "never-wake-up berry".)
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