• Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Farce, Slapstick
• Themes: Dropping Out, Brief Encounters, Nightmare Vacations
• Director: Harold Ramis
• Main Cast: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy
• Release Year: 1986
• Country: US
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG13

Plot

Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the planeload of tourists who will be his first patrons. This group of low-rent jackanapes include Barry Nye (Rick Moranis) and Barry Steinberg (Eugene Levy), a couple of horny geek bachelors; Phillipa Lloyd (Twiggy) and Terry Hamlin (Joanna Cassidy) as a couple of gals on the make; and Linda White (Andrea Martin), as a bossy American tourist. While the tourists shindig around Jack's ramshackle resort, a revolution is brewing on the island headed by revolutionary Ernest Reed (Jimmy Cliff). Trying to prevent the revolutionary upheaval is the dissipated British governor-general of the island, Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes (Peter O'Toole), and the pompous Prime Minister Solomon Gundy (Adolph Caesar). ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Robin Williams - Jack Moniker
• Peter O'Toole - Gov. Anthony Croyden Hayes
• Rick Moranis - Barry Nye
• Jimmy Cliff - Ernest Reed
• Twiggy - Phillipa Lloyd

Adolph Caesar - Prime Minister Solomon Gundy; Eugene Levy - Barry Steinberg; Joanna Cassidy - Terry Hamlin; Andrea Martin - Linda White; Brian Doyle-Murray - Voit Zerbe; Steven Kampmann - Randy White; Antoinette Bower - Pamela; Carl Bradshaw - Cab Driver; Peter Bromilow - Nigel; Arthur Brown - Opposition Leader; Bill W. Curry - Helmut; Joe Dorsey - Data Processing Supervisor; Robin Duke - Mary Lou; Joe Flaherty - Pilot; Bobby Ghisays - Sheik; Mary Gross - Jackie; Charles Hyatt - Mr. Banks; Simon Jones - Loby Prooth; Kashka - Jail Cell Guard; Carey Lowell - Fashion Model; Bruce McGill - Dave the Fireman; Louis Zorich - Swiss Businessman; Christopher Meredith - Flamboyant; Wallis Nicita

Credit

Tom Leopold - Screenwriter; Chris Miller - Screenwriter; Chris Miller - Short Story Author; Trevor Albert - Associate Producer; Jimmy Cliff - Songwriter; Brian Doyle-Murray - Screenwriter; John Graysmark - Production Designer; Alan Greisman - Executive Producer; Peter Hannan - Cinematographer; David Mansfield - Composer (Music Score); William Matthews - Production Designer; Van Dyke Parks - Composer (Music Score); Harold Ramis - Director; Harold Ramis - Screenwriter; Tony Reading - Art Director; Marion Rothman - Editor; Michael Shamberg - Producer; Harry Shearer - Screenwriter; Peter Young - Set Designer; Roy Charman - Sound/Sound Designer; Bob Smith - Cinematographer; Ed Roboto - Short Story Author; David Standish - Short Story Author; Janis Hirsch - Screenwriter

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