Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?
- sexual identity
- shipwreck
- melancholy
- lovers
- stranded
- marooned
- pacific island
- deserted island
- tropical island
- lost at sea
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Brooke Shields
Emmeline
Christopher Atkins
Richard
Leo McKern
Paddy Button
William Daniels
Arthur Lestrange
- Jeffrey Kleiser — Lookout
- Gus Mercurio — Officer
- Elva Josephson — Young Emmeline
- Glenn Kohan — Young Richard
- Bradley Pryce — Little Paddy
- Chad Timmerman — Infant Paddy
- Gert Jacoby — Sailor
- Alex Hamilton — Sailor
- Richard Evanson — Sailor
- Directed
- Randal Kleiser
- Written
- Douglas Day Stewart
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 2,083 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1980 · You’re hereThe Blue Lagoon
Where it starts.
Return to the Blue Lagoon
1991
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
