Castaway

IMDb link: 0092732
IMDb rating: 5.8 (3,786 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cast: Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Frances Barber, Georgina Hale and others

Release date: 11 Sep 1987
Release year: 1986
Runtime: 117 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: island, desert island, based on book, survival, based on true story, female full frontal nudity, sex scene, beehive, jungle, older man younger woman sex

Plot:

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 Irvine 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.

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