Castaway (1987)

Directed by

Nicolas Roeg

Genre

drama film, erotic film, biographical film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 123 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman answers an ad to spend a year on a remote island with a solitary writer. They struggle to survive together as tension and isolation wear on their relationship.

tenserawclaustrophobicmelancholicintimatevisually starkunsettling

What happens

Castaway is a 1986 biographical-drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed. The screenplay was by Allan Scott, adapted from the eponymous 1984 book by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Tuin, between New Guinea and Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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