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Paradise is a 1982 Canadian romance/adventure film starring Phoebe Cates and Willie Aames, written and directed by Stuart Gillard. The film's tagline's are If only it could have been forever... and No two people have ever come so close...

It was critiqued at the time as a "knockoff" of the more-famous The Blue Lagoon
(1980).

The film's themes were similar: Two young people find themselves abandoned in a world with no adult supervision, in fact no other people anywhere. Thus they have total freedom, inevitably learning all about love and reproduction, as well as basic survival techniques.

Leonard Maltin's annual Movie Guide book describes it this way: "Rating: star and a half. Silly Blue Lagoon ripoff, with Aames and Cates discovering sex while stranded in the desert. Both, however, do look good sans clothes."

Plot summary

In the Victorian period, David (Aames) and Sarah (Cates), two teenagers, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent 'Jackal' raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem of mistresses. David and Sarah had narrowingly escaped, but all the others are slain in the massacre. Their flight leads them to a beautiful oasis - their peaceful place in paradise - where they discover love and their sexuality. However, the Jackal has not given up on Sarah yet, and David must lure him to his death, or be killed by him. In the film's ending, Sarah reveals to David that she is pregnant and the two young lovers have finally reached Damascus.

Awards and nominations

Golden Raspberry Awards

:Nominated: Worst Actor (Willie Aames)

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