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Mood:
- StylizedSuspensefulSexyCaptivating
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Plot:
- Young HeroesObsessive QuestDangerEscapadesMind and SoulYouthMind GamePsychological more...
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Genres:
- AdventureDramaThriller
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- ThailandHotelIslandPolice StationResortOcean or Sea
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Praise:
- Blockbuster
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Style:
- NonlinearVoice Over
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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- Drugs/AlcoholNudity
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The Beach , 2000
English, French, Swedish, Thai, Serbo-Croatian
USA, UK
Profile of The Beach
The mood of The Beach is stylized, suspenseful, and sexy. The plot centers around an obsessive quest, young heroes, and escapades. It is a drama, adventure, and thriller movie. Stylistically, The Beach is nonlinear and includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a police station, at a resort, and in a hotel. The Beach is set in Thailand. It happens in the 1990s. It is based on a book. The Beach is known for being a blockbuster. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol and nudity.
Summary of The Beach
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this high-charged tale of survival, based on the popular novel by Alex Garland. He portrays Richard, a traveling American who wants nothing more than to experience life completely. Backpacking in Thailand, he gets more than he bargained for when he discovers a seemingly utopian island that is protected by a weapon-yielding gang. Throw into the mix an affair with a beautiful young French woman (Virginie Ledoyen) and dangerous drug smugglers and the situation becomes even more dangerous. Director Danny Boyle (TRAINSPOTTING, SHALLOW GRAVE) turns up the energy to an almost unbearable level, making for an exhilarating ride.
Details
| Language: | English, French, Swedish, Thai, Serbo-Croatian |
| Country: | USA, UK |
| Release date: | 11 February 2000 |
| Runtime: | 119 min |
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as Richard
as Sal
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Critics Reviews
TV Guide
Boyle's movie jettisons much of the telling detail; it has the shambling rhythm of a shaggy dog story and so simplifies the characters' ethical dilemmas that it's hard to care what they do.
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- by: Maitland McDonagh
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a movie to feel. Even when the thinking isn't all there, the emotions are, all the way to the film's poignant last seconds.
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- by: Mick LaSalle
Users Reviews
Two words: BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. I had the fortune of reading the book even before the movie became a concept and loved it. In the book, the main character is British and makes fun of Americans. In the movie he is an American and loses all of the...
- 07.July.2009
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- by: Jamie
- Jamie rated this movie
0/10
Filmed in beautiful Thailand, Leonardo Dicaprio potrays a man searching for something... until he lands upon a map. Once he got the map, what he didnt realize was the map was a secret was a secret passage to an island of no laws and no rules and...
- 22.October.2008
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- by: Deena
- Deena rated this movie
8/10Great
