The Beach

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The Beach

film by Boyle [2000]

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- Danny Boyle
  28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire
  …his first big-budget Hollywood film, The Beach (2000), which featured a screenplay by Hodge based on Alex Garland’s popular novel about a seemingly utopian community on a remote Thai island. Despite starring Leonardo DiCaprio, it earned mixed reviews and failed to find an audience. In 2002 Boyle had a sleeper…
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  …his first big-budget Hollywood film, The Beach (2000), which featured a screenplay by Hodge based on Alex Garland’s popular novel about a seemingly utopian community on a remote Thai island. Despite starring Leonardo DiCaprio, it earned mixed reviews and failed to find an audience. In 2002 Boyle had a sleeper…
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- Alex Garland
  The Beach and breakout success
  …Beach was adapted into a movie of the same name, directed by British filmmaker Danny Boyle, with the screenplay by John Hodge, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Garland admitted to feeling uncomfortable with the novel’s popularity, saying that he never had great ambitions to be a novelist and that he experienced…
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  …Beach was adapted into a movie of the same name, directed by British filmmaker Danny Boyle, with the screenplay by John Hodge, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Garland admitted to feeling uncomfortable with the novel’s popularity, saying that he never had great ambitions to be a novelist and that he experienced…
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