The Beach

Overview:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

Status: Released (2000-02-03)
Awards:7 nominations
BoxOffice:$39,785,027
Screen:John Hodge, Alex Garland
Productions: Figment Films, 20th Century Fox
Production Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Spoken Languages: English, Français, Hrvatski, svenska, ภาษาไทย
The Beach
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Reviews

John Chard

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Getting away from it all may not be perfection paradise after all? I first viewed this film upon its release and felt that the final third did the film down - and that the voice-over took away from the essence of the story, thus it's average. My subsequent viewings over the years ....

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CinemaSerf

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We are lucky that the photography depicts some of the most beautiful scenery on Earth as the rest of this adaptation of Alex Garland's book is positively stodgy. Talking of beautiful things, Leonardo DiCaprio still has something of his "Romeo & Juliet" (1996) boyishness to him as he ....

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