Directed by:
Harold RamisCinematography:
Peter HannanCast:
Robin Williams, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Adolph Caesar, Twiggy, Joanna Cassidy, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, Robin Duke, Mary Gross (more)VOD (1)
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An injured fireman (Robin Williams) uses his insurance money to leave the cares of the city behind and open a luxury Club Med-style Caribbean resort with his friend, nightclub owner/musician Ernest (Jimmy Cliff). However, the luxury resort turns out to be replete with lizards, bad plumbing, and corrupt officials. Twiggy costars as Phillipa Lloyd, a leftover British tourist who sparks Jack's interest and helps him to maintain sanity as they all struggle to keep the club afloat while watching over their naive party-crazy guests, with hysterical results. Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy shine as sleazy swinging singles looking to score on their tropical vacation. There is big trouble in paradise as an independence revolt brews on the island against the pompous Prime Minister Soloman Grundy (Adolph Caesar) and corrupt businessmen who are trying to close the club and sell the island. Somehow the shaky resort manages to withstand tropical storms and the final revolt by kitchen-utensil-wielding staff members against the island's dictator. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Robin Williams
USA
Best movies:
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Awakenings (1990)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Eugene Levy
Canada
Best movies:
Harrison Bergeron (1995) (TV movie)
American Reunion (2012)
Over the Hedge (2006)
Rick Moranis
Canada
Best movies:
Ghostbusters (1984)
Brother Bear (2003)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Jimmy Cliff
Jamaica
Best movies:
The Harder They Come (1972)
Marked for Death (1990)
Club Paradise (1986)
Peter O'Toole
Ireland
Best movies:
Ratatouille (2007)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Adolph Caesar
USA
Best movies:
The Color Purple (1985)
A Soldier's Story (1984)
Che! (1969)
Twiggy
UK
Best movies:
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Taming of the Shrew (2005) (TV movie)
Madame Sousatzka (1988)
Joanna Cassidy
USA
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Andrea Martin
USA
Best movies:
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Harrison Bergeron (1995) (TV movie)
Gypsy (1993) (TV movie)
Joe Flaherty
USA
Best movies:
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) (series)
Innerspace (1987)
Robin Duke
Canada
Best movies:
Groundhog Day (1993)
Running (1979)
Multiplicity (1996)
Mary Gross
USA
Best movies:
Baby Boom (1987)
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
The Evening Star (1996)
Carey Lowell
USA
Best movies:
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Fierce Creatures (1997)
Bruce McGill
USA
Best movies:
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Cinderella Man (2005)
A Perfect World (1993)
Steven Kampmann
USA
Best movies:
Multiplicity (1996)
A Tiger's Tale (1988)
For the Boys (1991)
Arthur Brown
UK
Best movies:
Tommy (1975)
Club Paradise (1986)
Freebird (2008)
Brian Doyle-Murray
USA
Best movies:
JFK (1991)
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Louis Zorich
USA
Best movies:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Detachment (2011)
Death of a Salesman (1985) (TV movie)
Antoinette Bower
German Empire
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Joe Dorsey
USA
Best movies:
Roots (1977) (series)
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) (TV movie)
Norma Rae (1979)