Information
- BFI identifier508268
- Date2000 (Copyright)
2000-02-11 (Release) - Production countryUSA, United Kingdom, Thailand
- Production company
- SynopsisBased on the novel by Alex Garland. About a young American backpacker who is addicted to nicotine, video games and movies about the Vietnam War. In a seedy Bangkok hotel, he is given a map to a secret island by a drug-addled Scotsman who then kills himself. The American sets off with a French couple to find the island, and together they discover an idyllic stretch of beach, fringed by marijuana fields, and inhabited by a commune of western travellers whom they join, with less than idyllic consequences. (Synopsis) Thriller. Richard, an American backpacker in Thailand, is left a map to a secret island far from the tourist hordes. Arriving there with a young French couple, he happens upon a Utopian beach community populated by fellow travellers, but comes to realise that paradise isn't all it seems to be. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Danny Boyle
©/Presented by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Production Company: Figment Films
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Title
The Beach (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/5EEC-9599-8919-E8A5-6935-9Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Posters / DesignsDesign: production - island beach scene - PD-18316
Design: production - island beach seen from sea ,waterfall in distance - PD-18317
Design: production - island beach scene from sea, waterfall in distance - PD-18318
Design: production - island beach scene from inland view small islands in bay - PD-18319
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-10810
view all - StillsPhotograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00o-75q
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-g5g
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-vpg
Photograph: transparency - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00m-rw6
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-jiz
view all - ArticlesPremiere v13 n6 February 2000 - Article, Interview, Prod. ReportFilm-Echo/Filmwoche n7 19 Feb 2000 - InterviewFilm Review n598 October 2000 - DVD ReviewInside Film n22 April 2000 - Articleview all
- Books
- The Beach
Work - 508268 - 2000 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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