The Blue Lagoon (1980)

On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by Emmeline when a ship passes by the island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together, Emmeline attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying, he realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and their friendship turns into love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Emmeline has a baby and does not understand why.

Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, 20th-century, alcohol, attempted-suicide, baby, back-to-nature, banana, bare-breasts

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Richard: What are you LOOKING at?::Emmeline: Your muscles.::Richard: What about them? You're really acting silly lately, Em. Always saying DUMB things like that. Always LOOKING at me funny! You're not coming down with something, are you? Don't give it to me.

Paddy: [chasing Richard and Em] Come back here and put your clothes on!::Young Richard: I don't wanna wear my old britches!::Paddy: It ain't proper to be runnin' 'round naked... [stops, out of breath]... all the time!

Richard: [while eating fruit] Kiss me.::Emmeline: You're all sticky!::Richard: So what? Kiss me!::Emmeline: [kisses Richard, but Richard won't let her go] Stop! I can't breathe!::Richard: But I don't wanna stop.

Emmeline: We're never getting off this island, Richard.::Richard: Thanks to you!::Emmeline: This is where we live, Richard. This is our home, now and forever.::Richard: No! I could never live here with JUST you! I don't even like you! You never used to laugh at me! You never used to have secrets you wouldn't tell me!::Emmeline: Well, you're not so perfect either, Mr. Richard Lestrange. I've seen you playing with it, and I'll tell your father, IF he ever gets here.::Richard: YOU? I hate you!::[throws a rock at her, narrowly missing her]::Emmeline: You almost hit me!::Richard: Take it back! Take back what you said!::Emmeline: I've seen it all! What happens after you've been doing it a long time?::Richard: Shut up! That's not fair peeking! I don't peek on you!::Emmeline: That's a lie! You're always staring at my buppies.::Richard: Only 'cause they look so funny! You know what you look like now, Em? You look like one of those pictures Paddy had in his drawer. One of his hootchie-cootchie girls!

Richard: I have a funny feeling in my stomach.::Emmeline: Me too.::Richard: My heart is beating so fast.::Emmeline: Mine too.

Young Richard: [looking at a picture of a family] Paddy, what's subjugation?::Paddy: Something I've been trying to avoid all my life.

Richard: What would I ever do with out my Em?

Richard: [overpowering Emmeline] Say "Richard is the smartest person on this island".::Emmeline: No!::Richard: Say it!::Emmeline: Stop it, Richard! I'm getting angry! Stop it! Get off!::Richard: Say it!::Emmeline: Richard is the smartest person on this island.::Richard: Fastest swimmer!::Emmeline: Fastest swimmer.::Richard: And the fastest runner!::Emmeline: Fastest runner.::Richard: Best hut builder!::Emmeline: You're the best at everything, Richard! Now get off!::Richard: [smirks] It's true.

Emmeline: [imitating Richard] It doesn't scare them off unless I can spear them! [throws an umbrella that acted as the spear]::Richard: Aw, spear you!

Richard: There's so many things I don't understand, like why do the fish stop swimming and lie on top of the tide pools after a heavy rain? Why do you hear the waves inside the big shells? Why are all these funny hairs growing on me? I wish a big book with all the answers to every question in the world would drop out of the sky and land in my hands right now. I'd read it till I knew everything.::Emmeline: Oh Richard, you can't know everything. Only God knows everything.::Richard: God - He can't find us any better than Santa Claus.