| | Beach DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Dramas Movies, Adventure Videos, Drugs, Islands | | Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Victoria Smurfit, Robert Carlyle, Peter Youngblood Hills, Guillaume Canet, Lars Arentz Hansen, Paterson Joseph, Staffan Kihlbom, Magnus Lindgren, Jerry Swindall | | Director | Danny Boyle | | Art Director | Rod McLean | | Co-Producer | Callum McDougall | | Composer | Angelo Badalamenti | | Costume Designer | Rachael Fleming | | Director of Photography | Darius Khondji | | Editor | Masahiro Hirakubo | | Producer | Andrew MacDonald | | Production Designer | Andrew McAlpine | | Screenwriter | John Hodge | | Set Decorator | Anna Pinnock | | Source Writer | Alex Garland |
Closed Captioned; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re Richard (DiCaprio) is a typical twenty-something American whose head is filled with an absurd amount of pop-culture and video game references. While travelling in Thailand in order to broaden his horizons and gain some real world experience, he meets Daffy (Carlyle), a crazy Englishman who gives Richard a mysterious map before committing suicide. Apparently the map leads to an idyllic island where the inhabitants live in a natural paradise. Intrigued, Richard convinces two French acquaintances, Francoise and Etienne (Ledoyen and Canet), to journey with him and see if Daffy was right. Upon reaching the island, Richard discovers that it does, in fact, appear to be the dream that Daffy had promised. They meet Sal (Swinton), a strong-willed woman and leader of the group. Sal has made a pact with the weapon-wielding drug dealers who control the island that her group can remain there provided no new bodies arrive. Richard has a brief tryst with Francoise, but she abandons him when she discovers that he has had another sexual encounter while gathering supplies from the mainland. And when two drugged-out Americans show up and crash the party, Richard's newfound Utopia is threatened once and for all. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this high-charged tale of survival, based on the popular novel by Alex Garland. He portrays Richard, a traveling American who wants nothing more than to experience life completely. Backpacking in Thailand, he gets more than he bargained for when he discovers a seemingly utopian island that is protected by a weapon-yielding gang. Throw into the mix an affair with a beautiful young French woman (Virginie Ledoyen) and dangerous drug smugglers and the situation becomes even more dangerous. Director Danny Boyle (TRAINSPOTTING, SHALLOW GRAVE) turns up the energy to an almost unbearable level, making for an exhilarating ride. Beach Reviews: "...Visually resplendent..."
-- Todd McCarthy, Variety "...THE BEACH is colorful and exciting....DiCaprio delivers strongly..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...Wonderfully lush....[The soundtrack] perfectly complements the photography, and the central performances are spot-on..."
-- Dan Jolin, Total Film "... [DiCaprio] goes APOCALYPSE NOW Brando, launching the most inspired sequence of this ambling meditation on paradise and innocence lost..."
-- Erin Richter, Entertainment Weekly
This is the only Lars Arentz Hansen video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Staffan Kihlbom, Jerry Swindall. Beach | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.79) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 2000 | | All Time Sales Rank |  12901  | | CD Universe Part number | 2139357 | | Catalog number | 2000177 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 14, 2003 |
Beach Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Just Fine
Everything went just fine - got the dvd in time for Christmas!
Submitted by Dawn_Cable2003 (Dallas, TX, USA) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Di Caprio's biggest blunder
You would think that an actor like Leonardo Di Caprio would know a bad script when he saw one and would choose to avoid it,but I guess not.I can't believe that he would be in a movie this bad.The only thing this movie does is show what a bunch of hippies are like when they find paradise.It gets off to a promising start,but when Leo and his friends find the mysterious island the story slows down.Do yourself a favor and just pass on this one.
Submitted by Blake (Brandon,MS)
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 GOOD ENOUGH
This movie if anything, didn't have enough sex and violence. There are only a few scenes with violene nothing bloody (except the shark scene)and a couple with sex, it doesn't show anything and how do you possibly rate this movie up there with a PORN??? The reviewer below needs to go to an island, have some sex and relax!! Maybe possibly find that hidden MARY JANE field while you're at it??
Submitted by STacey (Manteca, CA)
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 Too Much Violence, and Too Much Sex
All the violence in this movie got boring after awhile. And with all the sex scences in it, they might as well have made it a Porno. STUPID!
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