The Beach

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        
Danny Boyle
Produced by     
Andrew Macdonald
Screenplay by   
John Hodge
Based on            
The Beach by Alex Garland
Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio , Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet , Robert Carlyle,  Tilda Swinton , Paterson Joseph.
Music by
Angelo Badalamenti,  John Cale , Brian Eno
Cinematography
Darius Khondji
Edited by
Masahiro Hirakubo
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release dates
11 February 2000
Country               
United Kingdom, United States
Language            
English , French,  Thai , Swedish, Serbian

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