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Paradise
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Overview

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Writer (WGA):
Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 October 1991 (USA) more
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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... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
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Elijah Wood on '9,' 'The Hobbit' and Being a Child Star
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Touches the heart and soul more (17 total)

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) more
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QUEEN OF THE NIGHT more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Touches the heart and soul, 22 August 2000
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Author: Mike-DD from Singapore

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.

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