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India Press Store - Castaway (1987)
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale, Frances Barber, Tony Rickards
Directed By: Nicolas Roeg
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300273535
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6300273539
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 117
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Summary: Lucy Irvine's review, from the UK
Comment: I found that lucy Irving wrote a comment on the movie. Go to: Amazon UK. Castaway, VHS (not DVD) and see what she has to say about the movie. It will answer some questions. I will add additional comments, after I read Gerald Kingsland's book, "the Islander" (very hard to find in the USA) You can (and should) buy Lucy Irving's book, "Castaway". It's available on Amazon, for
ten cents, on up. Certainly the price is right.
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Summary: Beautiful study of the search 4 that love beyond sexualilty
Comment: I consider this movie a must see for one category of people and a don't waste your time for another category. I predict that eventually, this movie will become a valued "one-of-a-kind" classic which will long outlast many of the classics of the 80's and 90's. Read "all customer reviews" to see the wide diversity of good and bad mixed reviews to better understand my point.
For students of people, of life and especially students of the complexities of the male female relationship this is a film you don't want to miss -- there is none other like it that I've seen. For soft porn fans and students of nude celebrities scenes,yeh you'll find plenty of pubic hair in this film, but be fore-warned, the nudity in this film will only arouse perverts, if them -- it is upliftingly beautiful, natural, genuine. Intentionally, I'm guessing. My wild guess, infact, is that Nicholas Roeg picked out this true story, from many others, as an ideal medium to intentionally use nudity and the global fantasies of older men for the nubile firm bodies of younger women. Why? To bring out the true beauty of the endless human struggle to find that idealized, possibly utopian love that lies way beyond human sexuality. I myself, have seen or read no other work that portrays so understandingly and tenderly the power of sexuality and respect or disrespect, from a woman, to build or destroy a males self-esteem and self confidence while at the same time shows a how a woman's sexuality is so tied to real needs to find her man worthy of respect and admiration.
Beyond the agonizingly painful conflict that sexual tensions so often create in our human couplings, this film also explores the desperateness of the human need to endure; to search out that elusive path through the maze of emotional famine created by neglect and contention -- to find commitment in spite of everything. On that note, for me this movie has one of the most beautiful and uplifting but realistic endings of any romance fiction I have ever seen or read. Without spoiling the end, the whole theme of this movie, for me is beautifully portrayed in the very last seconds by just a few words in a handwritten note Lucy reads as she departs Gerald, there lives parting forever.
Finally, there is this sub-concept also beautifully portrayed through-out the film, a concept this world desperately needs more of. That line repeated several times through-out the movie: "Be kind to my mistakes."
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Summary: True Reality Viewing
Comment: The day dream of anyone I ever met, put to screen in a fairly representative version of the book by Lucy Irvine who actually did pursue her dream of living on a deserted Island.
The pitfalls and a honeymoon gone to trash upon arrival pose questions we all need to ask ourselves.
The scenery is gorgeous and if you ever wanted to walk naked on a deserted beach in a remote corner of the Indian Ocean. This is a movie worth watching and sharing with your loved one.
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Summary: They have to be kidding to give more than 3 stars!
Comment: They have to be kidding to give this more than 3 stars! Lets start with the film making.. Its aweful. With the setting they had the cinematography could have been breathtaking, it isn't. The technology existed in 1987. But this is a poorly shot movie.Editing. As poor as the filming was, the editing is very unpolished and poorly done, some might say choppy. Script. The poor editing AND a poor script make this difficult to watch when Donahoe is NOT on screen. The characters. Gerald, played gamely by Oliver Reed, is not a likeable person at all. From the beginning he is clumsy and very odd. Lucy, on the other hand is extremely likeable with or without clothing. Story. With the hook this movie had, you would think they could have come up with a good script to go with this, but they didn't. But maybe it was the poor direction and editing that ruined the story. We have an unarguably poorly made movie that is getting 4 and 5 star rating reviews. Apparently the only thing that matter with this movie is that Amanda Donahoe is naked a large percentage of the movie. So lets give her a 5, everything else a 1 or 2 and we end up with a 2 to 3 star movie. I round down to 2 stars because it is quit boring.
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Summary: ACTING
Comment: I came across this film again,
I saw it first some years ago,
Two people, island, stranded game,
The best of acting I have known.
He's tough; she's beautiful and gay,
The island - paradise and dreamlike,
They had agreed to stay away
From civil pleasures and the mankind.
But isolation, lack of food,
The mental strain and aggravation,
Took toll in settling the mood
With angry fighting and frustration.The sores had healed of proper care
The world was better, full of food,
And busy life came back prepared
Exchanging problems - bad for good.
But one sore deepest and infected
Would never heal, no matter what,
They failed each other, left neglected,
They cracked the unity accord.
The lesson taught and learned intensely,
There is a limit to the strain,
The best intentions played immensely,
Could crash you down full of pain.
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Editorial Reviews:
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True story that started with an executive in London placing an ad for a woman to share a tropical paradise and wedded bliss, dreaming of sexual abandon. Unfortunately his partner doesn't share his dreams.
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