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The Beach

The Beach

6.5/ 10

TMDB Rating

4,666

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2000

Release Year

119 min

Runtime

Drama
Adventure
Romance
Thriller

Overview

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.

Keywords

exotic island
beach
based on novel or book
hippie
map
commune
delusion
shark attack
thailand
backpacker
community
marijuana
shark
extramarital affair
voiceover

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Reviews(3)

8.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

June 29, 2015

8
8/10

Getting 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 subsequent viewings over the years would see me lam

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 30, 2024

6
6/10

We 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 & Juliet" (1996) boyishness to him as he arrives in Thail

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

December 4, 2025

10
10/10

I 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. And, honestly, it could have used to be a little

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