The Blue Lagoon

About The Blue Lagoon

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own.

Randal Kleiser's The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 romance film. Brooke Shields takes the lead as Emmeline, Christopher Atkins as Richard, Leo McKern as Paddy Button, and William Daniels as Arthur Lestrange.

Released in July 1980, it runs 104 minutes. Written by Douglas Day Stewart.

Shelv files it under melancholy, sentimental, wistful, and shipwreck. It streams on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 6.1 out of 10 from 2,095 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Return to the Blue Lagoon, and Love Wrecked make useful companions to The Blue Lagoon, all filed under deserted island, lost at sea, and marooned.