The Beach is a 2000 adventure drama film directed by Danny
Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was
adapted for the film by John Hodge. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and
features Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and
Paterson Joseph. It was filmed on the Thai island Koh Phi Phi. Richard
(Leonardo DiCaprio), an American college student in Southeast Asia for the
summer, goes to Thailand with the intention of experiencing something radically
different from his familiar life. He meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle), a Scottish
traveller who is crazy and rants on about a beach paradise on a secret island
and the parasites of civilization. Daffy later commits suicide but leaves
Richard a map to the island, convincing him that it exists. Richard meets a
French couple, Françoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and her boyfriend, Étienne
(Guillaume Canet), and persuades them to accompany him to the island, partly
out of an infatuation with Françoise. They travel from Bangkok to the shores of
Ko Samui in the Gulf of Thailand, where Richard befriends a pair of American
surfers. They talk excitedly about the myth of the beach and how it has an
almost unlimited supply of marijuana. Richard does not admit his knowledge, but
copies his map and slides it under their door the next morning.
Directed by
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Danny Boyle
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Produced by
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Andrew Macdonald
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Screenplay by
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John Hodge
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Based on
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The Beach by Alex Garland
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Starring
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Leonardo DiCaprio , Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet , Robert
Carlyle, Tilda Swinton , Paterson
Joseph.
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Music by
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Angelo Badalamenti, John Cale ,
Brian Eno
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Cinematography
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Darius Khondji
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Edited by
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Masahiro Hirakubo
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Distributed by
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20th Century Fox
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Release dates
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11 February 2000
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Country
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United Kingdom, United States
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Language
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English , French, Thai , Swedish,
Serbian
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