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The Blue Lagoon

Summary: During the Victorian period, two preteen cousins are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and enjoy a simple life together until puberty complicates matters.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 4,500,000
Domestic: $ 58,853,106

Box office:

Budget:$4.5MDomestic:$58.9MWorldwide:$58.9M

Adaptation/remake:

based on novel, remake

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Production:

Columbia Pictures

45%
8%53%

31/10067/100
14%11%
White88.89%Mixed / Other11.11%
0.50
BechdeltestNo 2 women

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Role model3/5
Violence4/5
Sex5/5
Drugs1/5

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RaceWhiteBlackMixed / OtherArabTotalVisualsInfo
Forebears5218
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Total1021114
Cast Percentages71.43%14.29%7.14%7.14%100%
U.S. Population (1980) Percentage79.6%11.7%3%0.27%
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US Census
(Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (1980) Representation-8.17+2.59+4.14+6.87
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Percentage81.25%7.72%0.76%
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Representation-9.82+6.57+6.38
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage84.16%8.33%2.19%
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation-12.73+5.96+4.95
World population (1980) Percentage20.04%9.56%1.92%6.38%
NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (1980) Representation+51.39+4.73+5.22+0.76
World Buying Power Percentage36.48%6.38%1.81%6.38%
NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation+34.95+7.91+5.33+0.76
Notes
The "Mixed / Other" categories overlap, and the 2 or more category was not an option until the 2000 Census. So for the combined column, all data will be taken from the "Other" column except for 2000, 2010, & 2020. For those, the average between the "2 or More Races" and "Some Other Race" will be used.
Arab Americans are less than 1% of the US population and often check "White" or "Other" on the US Census. And the only data available for them started when the US Census added ancestry in 1980. So assume a less than 1% margin of error and overlap with the "White" and "Other" categories.

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Message
0/5

This movie is meant to entertain and titillate and doesn't try to offer positive or negative messages.

Role model
3/5

Richard and Emmeline, who start out as young children and are teens by the end of the film, learn to survive on a deserted island. They model self-sufficiency as they provide food and shelter for themselves and a certain amount of cleverness in making their shelter more comfortable and even making tools, weapons, toys, and jewelry. They also model learning how to get along with someone and sustaining a relationship over a long period of time. We see them successfully have and raise a child with no guidance and in near-total ignorance. Paddy is gruff but affectionate and teaches them many survival skills. Richard's father never gives up searching for them.

Violence
4/5

Young Richard and Emmeline are briefly shown getting spanked, although not terribly harshly. They struggle against it (Emmeline bites the spanker) but aren't shown as seriously hurt.  A fire breaks out on the ship, and passengers and crew struggle with each other while attempting to escape. Richard slaps Emmeline in the face after she hits him on the head with a coconut. A human skull, a dead body, and a full skeleton are shown. There are several brief glimpses of blood and gore: The apparent remnants of a ritual are briefly seen as an indistinct but small, bloody mass; Richard witnesses a human sacrifice, and although the killing's not shown directly, blood is shown spurting onto the executioner's face; stones flow with blood; a lot of blood is briefly shown in water and some is on Emmeline's hands when she gets her first period; bloody hands are briefly shown from rope burn. Richard and Emmeline attempt suicide together by eating poison berries.

Sex
5/5
Drugs
1/5

Emmeline finds a keg and tastes a drop from the tap and refers to it as "funny stuff." Paddy is seen once behaving drunk, comically singing and dancing.

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