Story Line
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.
“Somewhere on this planet it must exist.”
Top Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio
Richard
Virginie Ledoyen
Françoise
Guillaume Canet
Étienne
Tilda Swinton
Sal
Staffan Kihlbom
Christo
Paterson Joseph
Keaty
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
2000-02-03
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
DramaAdventureRomanceThriller
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
8/10
•6/29/2015Getting away from it all may not be perfection paradise after all?
I first viewed this film upon its release and felt that the final third did the film down - and that the voice-over took away from the essence of the story, thus it's average. My s...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•7/30/2024We are lucky that the photography depicts some of the most beautiful scenery on Earth as the rest of this adaptation of Alex Garland's book is positively stodgy. Talking of beautiful things, Leonardo DiCaprio still has something of his "Romeo & Julie...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•12/4/2025I have to go all in on this, I loved the book, and I do love the movie but...
OK, it's a bias 100% rating. This wasn't a good film for Leo, not because he did a bad job but because they needed a different kind of actor. It should have been Ewan....