Additional information for The Beach, which has a domestic theatrical release set for February 11, 2000. The film is being distributed by 20th Century Fox and has not yet been rated. The Beach has a total running time of 119 minutes.
18PL
Malaysia
18
Brazil
18
South Korea
MA
Australia
KT
Belgium
14A
Canada
K-16
Finland
U
France
16
Germany
IIB
Hong Kong
16
Netherlands
M/16
Portugal
PG
Singapore
13
Spain
15
Sweden
15
UK
R
USA
R-18
Philippines
16
Iceland
119min
La playa
Argentina
La playa
Mexico
La playa
Spain
La playa
Uruguay
The Beach
Germany
The Beach
Italy
The Beach
Sweden
A Praia
Brazil
A Praia
Portugal
La plage
Canada
La plage
France
Пляж
Russia
A part
Hungary
Beach
Finland
Ha-Hof
Israel
I paralia
Greece
Kumsal
Turkey
Niebianska plaza
Poland
Pláz
Czech Republic
Rand
Estonia
Stranden
Norway
Zal
Croatia
February 02, 2000
USA
February 03, 2000
Hong Kong
February 03, 2000
Malaysia
February 03, 2000
Singapore
February 03, 2000
South Korea
February 11, 2000
UK
February 11, 2000
USA
February 12, 2000
Germany
February 15, 2000
Portugal
February 16, 2000
Belgium
February 16, 2000
France
February 17, 2000
Germany
February 17, 2000
Switzerland
February 18, 2000
Austria
February 18, 2000
Brazil
February 24, 2000
Argentina
February 25, 2000
Italy
February 25, 2000
Spain
February 25, 2000
Uruguay
March 02, 2000
New Zealand
March 03, 2000
Norway
March 09, 2000
Australia
March 09, 2000
Israel
March 10, 2000
Iceland
March 10, 2000
Thailand
March 16, 2000
Netherlands
March 17, 2000
Sweden
March 18, 2000
Indonesia
March 23, 2000
Hungary
March 24, 2000
Turkey
March 30, 2000
Czech Republic
March 31, 2000
Finland
March 31, 2000
Poland
April 06, 2000
Croatia
April 14, 2000
Denmark
April 14, 2000
Estonia
April 22, 2000
Japan
May 10, 2000
Philippines
May 24, 2000
Kuwait
October 09, 2002
France
Paradise has its price
Innocence never lasts forever.
Somewhere on this planet it must exist.
Paradise Found - Innocence Lost
It's the experience that matters
It really was some kind of paradise
Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), a young American backpacker in Thailand, goes to Southeast Asia with the intention of experiencing something radically different from his familiar life. He meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle), 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 Françoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and her boyfriend, Étienne (Guillaume Canet), and convinces them to accompany him to the island, partly out of an infatuation for Françoise. They travel from Bangkok to the shores of Koh 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.To finally reach the island, Richard, Françoise and Étienne must swim across to it. When they first arrive on the island, they come across an enormous marijuana plantation guarded by local farmers armed with AK-47 assault rifles. They barely manage to evade detection. After jumping off a high cliff and landing in a lake below, they are seen by Keaty (Paterson Joseph), who takes them to the beach community. They are cautiously interrogated by the island's leader Sal (Tilda Swinton) regarding their knowledge of the island, but are accepted. The trio are introduced to everybody and over the next few days go on to become integrated into the community.One night while Richard and Françoise are walking down the beach, she tells him that she is falling in love with him. They swim out into the ocean to look at a swarm of bioluminescent plankton, where Françoise kisses Richard and has sex with him on the beach. Despite their attempts to keep the romance a secret, the whole island finds out about it, including Étienne. Although devastated, Étienne says he will not stand in their way if Francoise is happier with Richard.At first the island and its community seem to live up to their reputation. Richard swims out into the ocean to catch fish with a harpoon and is attacked by a young mako shark, but he stabs it to death with a knife, which gains him much admiration. Events take a turn for the worse when Richard is chosen to accompany Sal to the mainland to acquire supplies, where Richard is inadvertently reunited with the American surfers who are preparing to go to the beach with two girls. Sal overhears their conversation about the copy of the map and confronts Richard, who admits his guilt. In exchange for Sal's silence and Richard's return to the island, Sal blackmails Richard into having sex with her that night.When they return to the island, everything returns to normal until the Swedes are attacked by a large shark while fishing in the ocean. Sten dies almost instantly and Christo is severely injured. The only options for Christo are to go to the mainland to get medical help or stay on the island and take his chances, but Sal refuses to allow a doctor to come to the island. Christo chooses to stay, not wanting to go near the water after his encounter with the shark. Christo's condition worsens, consistently lowering the morale of the whole community, so they take him out into the middle of the jungle and leave him to die. However, Étienne, disgusted by the group's decision, vows to stay with Christo.Later, Sal observes the American surfers on the neighboring island and charges Richard with the task of watching them so he can obtain the map and destroy it. While he's waiting for the surfers to arrive, Françoise shows up, furious and heartbroken, saying that Sal has told everybody about her affair with Richard at Koh Phangan. Richard cannot cope with his task and retreats into the forest where he becomes temporarily insane, believing that he is communing with the long-dead Daffy. He evades the other islanders and sets lethal traps in an attempt to keep them at bay, at times hallucinating that he is a character in a video game.Meanwhile, the surfers reach the island but are discovered and killed by the marijuana farmers before they can get to the beach. Richard witnesses their executions and retreats to the community to convince Étienne and Françoise to leave the island, believing that all their lives are now in danger. Étienne refuses, not wanting to leave the emaciated Christo, whose leg has become gangrenous. When the other two briefly leave the tent, Richard tearfully smothers Christo to death in a mercy killing. When he leaves the tent however, he is struck across the face by a farmer and knocked unconscious.He wakes up in a tent in pain, surrounded by the community and the farmers. The farmers approach Sal, with whom they had an agreement, and give her a gun loaded with a single bullet and an ultimatum: shoot Richard dead and be allowed to stay, or leave the island forever. Sal approaches Richard and fires an empty chamber, throwing the crowd into chaos. The lead farmer smiles as the community instantly disintegrates. Sal collapses in a flood of tears, as the crowd, now in hysterics, flees in droves to get away from the island. Together, they swim back to the mainland and go their separate ways.The film ends with Richard stopping by an internet cafe to check his e-mail. He receives an e-mail from Françoise entitled "beach life" which contains a photograph of the beach community and an animated handwritten inscription over the image: 'Parallel Universe. Love, Françoise x'.
Danny Boyle
Director(s)
John Hodge
Alex Garland
Writer(s)
Andrew Macdonald
producer
Callum McDougall
co-producer
Producer(s)
Angelo Badalamenti
Composer(s)
Richard
Leonardo DiCaprio
Hustler
Daniel York
Hotel Receptionist
Patcharawan Patarakijjanon
Françoise
Virginie Ledoyen
Étienne
Guillaume Canet
Daffy
Robert Carlyle
Cleaning Woman
Somboon Phutaroth
Detective
Weeratham 'Norman' Wichairaksakui
Travel Agent
Jak Boon
Zeph
Peter Youngblood Hills
Sammy
Jerry Swindall
Woman with Key
Krongthong Thampradith
Senior Farmer (as Abhijati 'Muek' Jusakul)
Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul
Farmer
Sanya 'Gai' Cheunjit
Farmer
Kaneung 'Nueng' Kenia
Farmer
Somchai Santitharangkun
Farmer (as Kawee 'Seng' Sirikanerat)
Seng Kawee
Farmer
Somkuan 'Kuan' Siroon
Keaty
Paterson Joseph
Sonja
Zelda Tinska
Weathergirl
Victoria Smurfit
Unhygenix
Daniel Caltagirone
Gregorio
Peter Gevisser
Bugs (as Lars Arentz Hansen)
Lars Arentz-Hansen
Sal
Tilda Swinton
Mirjana
Lidija Zovkic
Guitarman
Samuel Gough
Christo
Staffan Kihlbom
Karl
Jukka Hiltunen
Sten
Magnus Lindgren
Beach Community Member
Myriam Acharki
Beach Community Member
Andrew Carmichael
Beach Community Member
Josh Cole
Beach Community Member
Hélène de Fougerolles
Beach Community Member
Bindu De Stoppani
Beach Community Member
Stacy Hart
Beach Community Member
Nina Jacques
Beach Community Member (as Sheriden Jones)
Sheridan Jones
Beach Community Member
Gunilla Karlson
Beach Community Member
Sian Martin
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.
Director(s)
Alex Garland
Writer(s)
producer
Callum McDougall
co-producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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