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With no trace of Emma or Dean being found, Jack and Barbara can no longer neglect their individual responsibilities and both return home. As Emma and Dean's sexual relations continue, they share further intimate details, including a mutual desire to have children, but the difficulty of life on the
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When Dean and Emma find a human skeleton, he calms the upset Emma by kissing her. They give in to their growing feelings by having sex. The morning after their sexual encounter, Emma finds Dean digging a grave for the skeleton. When questioned, he becomes irritable, but eventually admits he was
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After being stranded over 100 days, Emma and Dean are rescued by a tourist helicopter. They are met by family, friends, and the media. Emma is thrust into a more popular position at school while Dean, still a semi-outcast, avoids approaching her in public. Readjusting to everyday life, their
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At first, they are friends, but eventually their bond evolves into a romantic relationship. Dean's father, Jack, and Emma's mother, Barbara arrive in Trinidad. Emma reveals that her parents have predetermined her future without her ever questioning it. After an extensive search, the Trinidad
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flirts with Emma, though she is instead interested in Dean, a loner who routinely gets into trouble and seldom socializes since his mother's death. After Dean's knife is confiscated, his father pulls strings to get his son back on the trip.
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On their second night in Trinidad, Dean and Emma separately attend a boat party. During the party, Emma falls overboard when police arrive in a surprise raid. Dean jumps into the water and helps her into a
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offers occasional honest moments of humor and adolescent angst: Ms. Evans and Mr. Thwaites are in their early 20s and better actors than Ms. Shields and Mr. Atkins were in their teens." Will Harris of
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has washed away the dinghy. Unsure if they will be rescued, Emma and Dean must rely on each other for survival. Together, they learn to build a fire, fish, and find food.
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cited the lack of physical explicitness in the sex scenes as a major weak point of the film, and said the ending was "particularly weak and nonsensical". Mike Hale of
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The pair drift to an island, avoiding dangerous rocks, with the dinghy's sole paddle. After discovering the island is deserted, they find the outgoing
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was highly critical of the film, saying it failed to meet even his low expectations, "When a film manages to fail to live up to the low bar set for
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received more mixed reviews than the previous two films in the franchise, and was often compared favorably to the critically reviled 1980 film. On
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films before, and upon being cast he watched the previous two films for research, though he admitted that he could not bring himself to watch
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to help build a school for less fortunate children. Emma, a popular star pupil, has her life plans set out. The high school
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the film has an approval rating of 51 out of 100 based on reviews from 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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government officially ends the effort. Jack and Barbara both keep searching, and he hires a private rescue attempt.
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thought the film was a guilty pleasure, and commented that "the new film lacks the glowing cinematography of
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hoping for closure over his mother's death, suffering guilt for inadvertently causing her fatal accident.
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films in several respects. The setting is contemporary, whereas the previous films were all set in the
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movies and Lifetime movies, you know you've got something really, really awful on your hands.
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and Matt Heller as writers. The film went into production in 2011 with plans to film in
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were so cold that they could not talk properly, necessitating that
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During filming of the scenes in the lagoon, Thwaites and co-star
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Two high school students, Emma and Dean, are on a class trip to
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island and concern about her family increasingly strain Emma.
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Films about survivors of seafaring accidents or incidents
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Carrie Wampler as Stacey Robinson, Emma's younger sister
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Alix Elizabeth Gitter as Lizzie, one of Emma's friends
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Annie Tedesco as Ms. Collier, a teacher on the trip
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Index


Romance
Teen
The Blue Lagoon
H. Devere Stacpoole
Heather Rutman
Mikael Salomon
Indiana Evans
Brenton Thwaites
Denise Richards
Patrick St. Esprit
Frank John Hughes
Hayley Kiyoko
Aimee Carrero
Christopher Atkins
Craig Zadan
Neil Meron
Denis Lenoir
Roy Wagner
Silver Screen Pictures
Sony Pictures Television
Lifetime
romantic drama
television film
Lifetime
Indiana Evans
Brenton Thwaites
The Blue Lagoon
Victorian era
Caribbean

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