The Blue Lagoon
A story of natural love.
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.
- Director
- Randal Kleiser
- Signature
- Drama · Action · Craft
- Worldwide
- $59M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
12 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How The Blue Lagoon actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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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?
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Blue Lagoon returned 13.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $5M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $59M
- Release date
- Jul 5, 1980
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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