The Blue Lagoon (1980)

The Blue Lagoon rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb5.8/10· 83K votes

Rotten Tomatoes12%

Metacritic31%

TMDb6.1/10· 2K votes

With 12% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 5.8/10 on IMDb and 31/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About The Blue Lagoon

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?

Cast of The Blue Lagoon

• 

  Brooke Shields

  as Emmeline

• 

  Christopher Atkins

  as Richard

• 

  Leo McKern

  as Paddy Button

• 

  William Daniels

  as Arthur Lestrange

• 

  Jeffrey Kleiser

  as Lookout

• 

  Gus Mercurio

  as Officer

• E

  Elva Josephson

  as Young Emmeline

• 

  Glenn Kohan

  as Young Richard

• B

  Bradley Pryce

  as Little Paddy

• C

  Chad Timmerman

  as Infant Paddy

• G

  Gert Jacoby

  as Sailor

• A

  Alex Hamilton

  as Sailor

The Blue Lagoon facts

Budget

$4.5M

Box office

$58.9M

Collection

The Blue Lagoon Collection