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Return to the Blue Lagoon is a 1991 American romance and adventure film starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause, produced and directed by William A. Graham. The plot is about two young children stranded on a tropical island in the South Pacific. Their life together is blissful, but not without physical and emotional challenges. The screenplay by Leslie Stevens was based on the novel The Garden of God by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris.

Tagline: Return to the Romance, Return to the Adventure...

Plot summary

In the Victorian period, Mrs. Sarah Hargrave, a beautiful widow, and two young children are cast off from the ship they are travelling on. After days at sea, a sailor tries to kill the children, but Sarah kills him. After days at sea, they are stranded on a beautiful tropical island. Sarah tries to raise them to be civilized, but soon gives up, as the orphaned boy Richard was born and raised by young lovers on this same island, and he influences the widow's daughter Lilli. They grow up, and Sarah educates them from the Bible, as well as from her own knowledge, including the facts of life. When the children are about eight, she dies, leaving them to finish raising themselves. They survive solely on their resource and the bounty of their remote paradise.

Years later, siblings Richard and Lilli Hargrave have grown tall, strong, and beautiful. As young adults, they fall in love and exchange formal wedding vows and rings in the middle of the jungle. Soon after, a ship arrives at the island, carrying unruly sailors, a stuffy captain, and his beautiful daughter Sylvia Hilliard. They offer to bring them back to civilization. Sylvia tries to steal Richard from Lilli, but as tempted as he is by her strange ways, he realizes that Lilli is his heart and soul, upsetting Sylvia. Richard is forced to lure a sailor to his death on the reef, or be killed by him. He apologizes to Lilli for hurting her, and she reveals that she is pregnant. At last, the ship departs and the two young lovers prefer to stay on the island and have their baby girl.

Ultimately, Richard and Lilli have learned the true meaning of civilized society: respect and love each other, keep the friendship alive, avoid the actions leading to conflict, and live harmoniously with nature.

Trivia

This film is a sequel to the 1980
remake The Blue Lagoon
, starring Brooke Shields
and Christopher Atkins
. Return to the Blue Lagoon bears a strong similarity to the original film, which was produced and directed by Randal Kleiser.
This film picks up from where the original Blue Lagoon left off. Richard is the child of Richard and Emmeline of the original film, who both are revealed to be dead at the beginning and are buried at sea. The new shipwreck occurred mere days after they were found.
Despite the adult content of this film, including partial nudity and sexual themes, when Return to the Blue Lagoon was released to home video, it was promoted in North America as a family film suitable for all ages.
The DVD version of this film is reframed to cut out Milla Jovovich's breasts in the scene where she's looking at herself in the mirror. The older VHS version showed her nipples at the very bottom of the screen.
The film's closing theme song "A World of Our Own" is performed by Surface featuring Bernard Jackson. The music is written by Barry Mann, and the lyrics are written by Cynthia Weil.
Character actor Gus Mercurio
is the only cast member of this film who also appeared in the original Blue Lagoon
eleven years earlier. He played the ship's officer who found Richard and Emmeline.
Milla Jovovich's appearance in this film led to comparisons between her and another model-turned-actress, none other than Brooke Shields
(who had starred in the original film).
This was Milla Jovovich's second and Brian Krause's first film (Jovovich went on to star in the 1997
science fiction film The Fifth Element
; Krause went on to join the cast of the fantasy television series Charmed).
This was actor Brian Blain
's last film before his death of a heart attack in July 1994.
This was actor Peter Hehir
's last film before his seven year absence from the silver screen.
This film has grossed more than $2.8 million in the United States.
This film was shot on location in Australia and Taveuni, Fiji.

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