The Beach
film by Boyle [2000]
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- In Danny Boyle
…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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- DiCaprio
- In Leonardo DiCaprio
In 2000 he starred in The Beach, a dark film about a young backpacker’s search for paradise. Two years later he appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, a period piece about gangsters in New York City in the mid-1800s. That year he also starred opposite Tom Hanks as…
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- Swinton
- In Tilda Swinton
…supporting role in the thriller The Beach (2000) before starring as the fiercely protective mother of a young gay man in The Deep End (2001).
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