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Lucy Irvine (book)
Allan Scott (written by)
Release Date:
11 September 1987 (USA) more
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Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island... more | add synopsis
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Inflated with ornamental pomposity...typical Nicolas Roeg, in other words more (21 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Oliver Reed | ... | Gerald Kingsland |
 | Amanda Donohoe | ... | Lucy Irvine |
 | Georgina Hale | ... | Sister Saint Margaret |
| Frances Barber | ... | Sister Saint Winifred |
| Tony Rickards | ... | Jason |
 | Todd Rippon | ... | Rod |
| John Sessions | ... | Man in Pub |
 | Virginia Hey | ... | Janice |
| Sorel Johnson | ... | Lara |
| Len Peihopa | ... | Ronald |
| Paul Reynolds | ... | Mike Kingsland |
| Sean Hamilton | ... | Geoffrey Kingsland |
| Sarah Harper | ... | Swimming Teacher |
| Stephen Jenn | ... | Shop Manager |
| Joseph Blatchley | ... | Registrar |
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117 min
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Color (Fujicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L | Germany:12 | Australia:M | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16
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Charles House, Kensington High Street, Kensington, London, England, UK more
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UK singer Kate Bush was initially asked to star in the film, but she was put-off by the sexual material of the screenplay. Instead she provided a song. more
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Features The Pumpkin Eater (1964) more
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Island travelogue and would-be 'uninhibited' male-female relations get sprinkled with psychosexual melodrama here, as only filmmaker Nicolas Roeg could present it. An older Londoner (Oliver Reed) advertises for a female companion to spend a year with him on a deserted island; Amanda Donohoe answers--she's the kind of gal who whips off all her clothes the minute the boat docks. Based on Lucy Irvine's book, one gets the sense this plot could be more a fantasy for women than for men--after all, the headstrong lady seems to call most of the shots, while Reed does the deep contemplating (with most of his clothes on!). The initial set up of the story is fun, but once the couple gets to the island, the script becomes non-existent. Director Nicolas Roeg isn't interested in lush, romantic tiptoeing through the flora and fauna (and he probably didn't see "The Blue Lagoon" anyway), yet one cannot help but imagining these two as older Blue Lagooners for a more cynical age, caught up in a messy combination between that scenario and the more political "Swept Away". Alas, this "Castaway" seems made up of leftover parts. *1/2 from ****