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Directed by | Danny Boyle |
Screenplay by | John Hodge |
Based on | The Beach by Alex Garland |
Produced by | Andrew Macdonald |
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Cinematography | Darius Khondji |
Edited by | Masahiro Hirakubo |
Music by | Angelo Badalamenti |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $50 million[1] |
Box office | $144.1 million[1] |
The Beach is a 2000 adventure drama film directed by Danny Boyle, from a screenplay by John Hodge, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island of Ko Phi Phi Le.
The film was released on 11 February 2000, by 20th Century Fox. It was a moderate box office success, grossing $144 million against a $50 million budget, but received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, who praised the film's scenery, soundtrack, and DiCaprio's performance, but criticized it as a muddled adaptation that loses the book's themes and social commentary.