Club Paradise is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and Jimmy Cliff. The film reunited Ramis's co-writer with most of SCTV's SCTV actor Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty and Robin Duke playing supporting roles in the film, as well as co-author Brian Doyle-Murray, a former staff writer of SCTV .
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Plot
Jack Moniker is a wounded Chicago firefighter at work. Using his disability, he retired to the small island of Saint Nicholas, the Caribbean, and bought a small property. Anthony Croyden Hayes, who was appointed by the British crown as governor of St. Nicholas, more concerned with holidays than to reign. Miss Phillipa Lloyd, who visited St. Nicholas with some friends, decides to stay permanently and become Jack's girlfriend.
Jack befriends the financially troubled reggae musician Ernest Reed and they set up Club Paradise, which they market as a Club Med-style resort complete with brochures featuring photos of Jack in disguises on every page. It attracts a handful of tourists, including Barry and Barry who are there for marijuana and women. Most of the films involve the misadventure of tourist comics tailored to island life and the low-rent facilities of Club Paradise. Also traveling to the island was a New York Times travel writer Terry Hamlin who ended up spending most of his time at the company of Governor Hayes. Adding pleasure was Linda White's suburban housewife, who was on vacation with her husband, Randy.
Voit Zerbe plays a key role, as developers who want to run Jack and Ernest off their property so that he can build a large high-end casino on the beach as part of an agreement he made with two business partners. To do so, he used the help of local prime minister Solomon Gundy and the prime ministers to cause trouble and make Club Paradise close "legally." Jack and Ernest went so far as to sneak onto a Zerbe yacht to provide "useful intelligence" to Governor Hayes by finding out what would happen to Saint Nicholas's future. They dive into a yacht ship where they are captured by local police and thrown into jail. When the tactics of Prime Minister Gundy's strong hand were not working, he ordered the island's military takeover. Ernest builds the power of resistance, and St. Nicholas was soon threatened with a possible civil war, which was avoided at the last minute with the help of Jack and Governor Hayes. When Gunder's takeover failed, Zerbe and his comrades left Saint Nicholas and headed for the Cayman Islands.
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Cast
- Robin Williams as Jack Moniker
- Peter O'Toole as Governor Anthony Croyden Hayes
- Rick Moranis as Barry Nye
- Jimmy Cliff as Ernest Reed
- Twiggy as Phillipa "Philadelphia" Lloyd
- Adolph Caesar as Prime Minister Solomon Gundy
- Eugene Levy as Barry Steinberg
- Joanna Cassidy as Terry Hamlin
- Andrea Martin as Linda White
- Brian Doyle-Murray as Voit Zerbe
- Joe Flaherty as Pilot
- Steven Kampmann as Dr. Randy White
- Robin Duke as Mary Lou
- Mary Gross as Jackie
- Simon Jones as Toby Prooth
- Louise Bennett as Portia
- Collins Ansel "Double Barrel" as Flamboyant (Ernest Reed band)
- Earl "Chinna" Smith as Flamboyant (band Ernest Reed)
- Carey Lowell as Model Mode
- Louis Zorich as a Swiss Businessman
- Bruce McGill as Dave, Jack's firefighter
Harold Ramis's wife, Anne Ramis, also acted as a travel agent.
Production
The shooting took place from April to July 1985. The production company Warner Bros. planned to release it in early 1986, but held it until July.
Bill Murray rejected the main role of the film, which was eventually awarded to Robin Williams; his brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, ended up as a player. John Cleese was also scheduled to star in, but soon got out before Peter O'Toole signed to replace him.
"Ed Roboto" was a pseudonym for Harry Shearer, who was asked to rewrite with Tom Leopold. Only two words of what they write end up in the movie (title). Shearer then commented that she was "very surprised by the movie" so she removed her name from the credit.
Adolph Caesar died of a heart attack four months before the release of the film.
Reception
The film is mostly given negative reviews from critics with Rotten Tomatoes maintaining Club Paradise with an 11% rating based on 27 reviews. Peter O'Toole's appearance in the film earned him a Razzie Award nomination for the Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jerome Benton for Under the Cherry Moon .
See also
- List of American films in 1986
References
External links
- Club Paradise on IMDb
- Club Paradise at AllMovie
- Heaven's Club at Rotten Tomatoes
- Heaven Club at Box Office Mojo
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