TY - ADVS AU - DiCaprio,Leonardo AU - Swinton,Tilda AU - Ledoyen,Virginie AU - Canet,Guillaume AU - Carlyle,Robert AU - Macdonald,Andrew AU - Boyle,Danny AU - Garland,Alex ED - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. ED - Figment Films (Firm) ED - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. TI - The beach PY - 2000/// CY - Beverly Hills, CA PB - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Beaches KW - Southeast Asia KW - Drama KW - Feature films KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - lcsh KW - Action and adventure films N1 - "Special edition"--Cover; Originally released as a motion picture in 2000; Based on the book by Alex Garland; Music by Angelo Badalamenti ; editor, Masahiro Hirakubo ; production designer, Andrew McAlpine ; cinematography, Darius Khondji; Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet and Robert Carlyle; MPAA rating, R. Canadian home rating, 14A N2 - A young backpacker in Thailand searching for something different learns of the existence of an idyllic island which is not even on the map. Once he reaches the island, he discovers a secret commune of international drifters living off fish and pot. The man's arrival coincides with growing tension between factions, leading to the commune's violent demise ER -