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Overview
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Release Date:
4 October 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
They gave a boy a summer he'd always remember. He gave them back the love they lost. more
Plot:
Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson (at the time married to each other) play Lily and Ben Reed, a young couple torn apart by a family tragedy...
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1 win
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2 nominations
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Elijah Wood on '9,' 'The Hobbit' and Being a Child Star
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Touches the heart and soul
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Melanie Griffith | ... | Lily Reed |
 | Don Johnson | ... | Ben Reed |
 | Elijah Wood | ... | Willard Young |
 | Thora Birch | ... | Billie Pike |
 | Sheila McCarthy | ... | Sally Pike |
 | Eve Gordon | ... | Rosemary Young |
| Louise Latham | ... | Catherine Reston Lee |
 | Greg Travis | ... | Earl McCoy |
| Sarah Trigger | ... | Darlene Pike |
 | Richard K. Olsen | ... | Minister |
| Rick Andosca | ... | Ernest Parkett |
| Anthony Romano | ... | Popular Boy |
| Timothy Erskine | ... | Darlene's Boyfriend |
| Chestley Price | ... | Bus Driver |
 | Dave Hager | ... | Bartender |
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Runtime:
111 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
UK:12 (original rating) (cut) |
UK:12 (video re-rating) (2003) (uncut version) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
USA:PG-13 |
Canada:PG
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Remake of Le grand chemin (1987)
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Soundtrack:
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
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I wrote a short essay after watching this movie, not because it affected me, but that it left such a great impression. To me, the use of 'Paradise' as title is apt, as the movie goes to show how many people continue to live in their private hells, when all around them is a place which seems like paradise. These people, though socially interactive at times, seem more preoccupied with the ghosts of their pasts rather than the blessings of the moment. Only when these characters are able to let go of the demons that haunt them are they able to once again experience the joys of love and intimacy.
This film can help us to evaluate the things that we allow to control us, and help us to understand that instead of examining our lives under a microscope, we should allow ourselves to look up and out sometimes, and maybe discover all those things missing in our lives but which were right by us all the time.