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Release Date
USA: Feb 11, 2000
UK: 11 Feb 2000
DVD Release Date
R1: Jul 25, 2000
R2: 27 Dec 2000
Budget $50,000,000
Official Website:
The Beach Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence, some strong sexuality, language and drug content.
Running Time
1 hour, 59 minutes
Country USA
Studio Figment Films
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• The Beach
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Drugs, Betrayal, Murder, Gore, Suspense
Tagline: Innocence never lasts forever.
Plot: Richard (DiCaprio) is a typical twenty-something American whose head is filled with an absurd amount of pop-culture and video game references. While travelling in Thailand in order to broaden his horizons and gain some real world experience, he meets Daffy (Carlyle), a crazy Englishman who gives Richard a mysterious map before committing suicide. Apparently the map leads to an idyllic island where the inhabitants live in a natural paradise. Intrigued, Richard convinces two French acquaintances, Francoise and Etienne (Ledoyen and Canet), to journey with him and see if Daffy was right. Upon reaching the island, Richard discovers that it does, in fact, appear to be the dream that Daffy had promised. They meet Sal (Swinton), a strong-willed woman and leader of the group. Sal has made a pact with the weapon-wielding drug dealers who control the island that her group can remain there provided no new bodies arrive. Richard has a brief tryst with Francoise, but she abandons him when she discovers that he has had another sexual encounter while gathering supplies from the mainland. And when two drugged-out Americans show up and crash the party, Richard's newfound Utopia is threatened once and for all.
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Danny Boyle
Trainspotting, 28 Days Later..., Shallow Grave |
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 | John Hodge
Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary |
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 | Tilda Swinton
Vanilla Sky, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Constantine |
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American Psycho, Basquiat, Something Wild |
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