The Beach

About The Beach

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.

Danny Boyle's The Beach is a 2000 romance thriller film. Its themes are extramarital affair, beach, shark, and marijuana.

Leonardo DiCaprio takes the lead as Richard, Virginie Ledoyen as Françoise, Guillaume Canet as Étienne, and Tilda Swinton as Sal. At 119 minutes long, it arrived in February 2000.

The screenplay is by John Hodge. It is adapted from a novel. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

Soul Surfer, Jaws, and The Meg make useful companions to The Beach, all filed under shark attack. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 4,828 votes and it carries a R rating.