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The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romance, drama, and survival film directed by Randal Kleiser, who also served as producer. The screenplay was written by Douglas Day Stewart, and the cast includes Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, and William Daniels. The film was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It features cinematography by Néstor Almendros and a musical score by Basil Poledouris.
The movie has a runtime of 104 minutes and was released on July 5, 1980. It was rated R and had a production budget of 4,500,000, earning 58,853,106 at the box office. The film received mixed critical reception, with an IMDb rating of 5.8 based on 83,477 votes and a Metascore of 31. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. A sequel titled Return to the Blue Lagoon followed the original.
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Film · TMDB
6.1Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?
Cast
- Brooke Shields as Emmeline
- Christopher Atkins as Richard
- Leo McKern as Paddy Button
- William Daniels as Arthur Lestrange
- Jeffrey Kleiser as Lookout
- Gus Mercurio as Officer
Themes
- sexual identity
- shipwreck
- melancholy
- lovers
- stranded
- marooned
- pacific island
- deserted island
- tropical island
- lost at sea
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Ratings
IMDb
5.8/10
82,702 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
12%
Metacritic
31/100
- Year
- 1980
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 8 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Randal Kleiser
- Screenplay by
- Douglas Day Stewart
- Based on
- The Blue Lagoon , by Henry De Vere Stacpoole
- Produced by
- Randal Kleiser
- Starring
- Brooke Shields Christopher Atkins Leo McKern William Daniels
- Cinematography
- Néstor Almendros
- Edited by
- Robert Gordon
- Music by
- Basil Poledouris
- Color process
- Metrocolor
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- Release date
- June 20, 1980 ( 1980-06-20 )
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4.5 million
- Box office
- $58.8 million (North America)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- melodrama
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Return to the Blue Lagoon
- Based on
- The Blue Lagoon
- Main subject
- puberty
- Director
- Randal Kleiser
- Screenwriter
- Douglas Day Stewart
- Cast member
- Gus Mercurio
- Composer
- Basil Poledouris
- Producer
- Randal Kleiser
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Néstor Almendros
- Narrative location
- Insular Oceania
- Filming location
- Nanuya Levu
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 716465
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Lgoon.jpg
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- publication date
- 1980-12-19
- title
- The Blue Lagoon
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
- distributed by
- Netflix
- after a work by
- Q1392055
- capital cost
- 4500000
- box office
- 58853106
- derivative work
- Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 31/100
- Commons category
- The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American drama 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.
The film tells the story of a boy and a girl who live together in a tropical island paradise in the South Pacific after surviving a shipwreck. Without adult supervision or societal restrictions, the two navigate the emotional and physical changes of puberty, fall in love, and have a child together before being rescued at the film's end.
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