Details

Release year: 1980

Storyline

During the Victorian period (1837 to 1901), two preteen cousins (9 year old Richard and 6 year old Emmeline) are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and enjoy a simple life together until puberty complicates matters.

Top credits

Directors

Randal Kleiser

Writers

Cast

Brooke Shields — Emmeline Lestrange
Christopher Atkins — Richard Lestrange
Leo McKern — Paddy Button
William Daniels — Arthur Lestrange

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• While viewing this movie, John Gibbons, a herpetologist at the University of the South Pacific, realized that the iguanas that appeared in the film were a distinct species that had never before been seen or documented by experts in the field. Afterward, he visited Nanuya Levu, the Fiji island where the movie was made, and named the species the Fiji Crested Iguana.

• When Brooke Shields' original nude body double broke her back, the producers ended up asking Kathy Troutt, whom they had hired to catch and train dolphins, if she was willing to do this because she was the same body type as Shields. Troutt agreed, and had no issue doing nude swimming scenes.

• Most of the nude scenes depicting Emmeline Lestrange include a body double. The underage Brooke Shields always had to have her hair glued to her breasts for the other scenes.