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.
03-05-1986
1h 57m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Nicolas Roeg
Writer:
Allan Scott
Production:
United British Artists (UBA), The Cannon Group
Key Crew
Additional Music:
Hans Zimmer
Producer:
Rick McCallum
Executive Producer:
Peter Shaw
Executive Producer:
Richard Johnson
Associate Producer:
Selwyn Roberts
Locations and Languages
Country:
GB; US
Filming:
GB
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Oliver Reed
Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (a film directed by his uncle Carol Reed), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover and stepfather in Tommy (1975), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).
For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed fifth most popular star at the box office. The British Film Institute (BFI) stated that "partnerships with Michael Winner and Ken Russell in the mid-60s saw Reed become an emblematic Brit-flick icon", but from the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with the BFI adding "Reed had assumed Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian".
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Amanda Donohoe (born 29 June 1962) is an English actress.
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Virginia Hey (born June 19, 1952) is an Australian actress, known for her role as Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan in the science fiction television series Farscape, playing her debut film as the "Warrior Woman" in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), and various roles in television drama series, such as lawyer Jennifer St James in E Street (1989-1990).
Since leaving Farscape, Hey has started her own company, White Flower Lei, which manufactures perfumes and soaps. She currently resides in the UK.
Paul Reynolds is an English actor who made his start as a child actor in a variety of small parts, but became most recognized for his role as "Colin Matthews" on the BAFTA award winning drama, Press Gang.
Joseph Blatchley was born on November 27, 1948 in London, England. He is an actor and director.
He has been married to Geraldine James since June 1986. They have one child.
