The Blue Lagoon (1980)

Release date: 1980-07-02
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Randal Kleiser
Production Co: Columbia Pictures
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Rating: 5.8/10
Length: 1h 44min

Storyline

On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by ...

Plot Keywords

island, nudity, victorian era, loss of virginity, nude swimming, based on novel, remake, shipwreck, teen romance, teenage boy, coming of age, stranded on an island, cousin cousin relationship, male nudity, incestuous desire, penis, sex, teenage girl, nude bathing, first time sex

Short Review

The Blue Lagoon is closer to Robinson Crusoe Goes Club Med than to its original source. It's a fantasy island conceived at poolside in Beverly Hills and executed by tourists to the Fiji Islands. Shallow water, indeed.