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Castaway (1986) More at IMDbPro »

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through. Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>

A young Englishwoman volunteers to live for one year on a deserted tropical island with a middle-aged, misogynist Englishman to seek adventure and a change in her mundane life, only to learn that living with him isn't all it's cracked up to be. Written by Anonymous

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