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Club Paradise
Club Paradise is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Robin Williams, Twiggy, Peter O'Toole and Jimmy Cliff. Set in a fictional Caribbean banana republic, it follows a group of vacationers' attempts to create a luxury resort from a seedy nightclub, and the series of events that take place.
The film reunites director and cowriter Ramis with his SCTV co-stars Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, and Joe Flaherty, and includes additional SCTV performers Rick Moranis and Robin Duke. They play supporting roles in the film, as does cowriter Brian Doyle-Murray, a former SCTV staff writer. It was the final film of actor Adolph Caesar, who died in March 1986, four months before the film's release.
Jack Moniker is a Chicago firefighter who is injured on the job. Using his disability insurance payout, he retires to the small (fictional) Caribbean island of Saint Nicholas, and buys a small property. Anthony Croyden Hayes, appointed by the British crown as governor of St. Nicholas, is concerned more with vacationing than governing. Miss Phillipa Lloyd, who is visiting St. Nicholas with some friends, decides to stay permanently, and becomes Jack's girlfriend.
Jack befriends financially-troubled reggae musician Ernest Reed, and they form Club Paradise, which they market as a Club Med-style resort, complete with a brochure that features photographs of Jack in various disguises on every page. This attracts a handful of tourists, including Barry Nye and Barry Steinberg, who are there for the marijuana and the women.
Much of the film involves the tourists' comic misadventures adjusting to island life, and the low-rent facilities of Club Paradise. Also traveling to the island is The New York Times travel writer Terry Hamlin, who ends up spending most of her time in the company of Governor Hayes. Adding to the comedic content is suburban housewife Linda White, who is vacationing with her husband Randy, who, despite the very favorable surroundings and atmosphere, is not very randy.
Voit Zerbe plays a key role, as a developer who wants to force Jack and Ernest from their property so that he can build a massive high-end casino on the beach, as part of a deal that he is making with two business partners. To do that, he uses the help of the local prime minister, Solomon Gundy, and his men to cause trouble to have Club Paradise to close "legally". Jack and Ernest board Zerbe's yacht to provide some "useful intelligence" for Governor Hayes, by finding out what is going to happen to the future of St. Nicholas. They skin dive to the yacht, where they are captured by local police and thrown in jail. When Prime Minister Gundy's strong-arm tactics do not work, he orders a military takeover of the island. Ernest builds up a resistance force, and St. Nicholas is soon threatened with the possibility of civil war, which is averted at the last minute with assistance from Jack and Governor Hayes. As Gundy's takeover fails, Zerbe and his partners leave St. Nicholas and head for the Cayman Islands.
Harold Ramis's wife, Anne Ramis, has a cameo appearance as a travel agent.
Shooting took place in Jamaica, Chicago and Los Angeles from April to July 1985. The titular "Club Paradise" was a set constructed on Winnifred Beach in Portland Parish, while other scenes were shot in the city of Port Antonio. Warner Bros. Pictures planned to release it in early 1986, but held it back until July.
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Club Paradise
Club Paradise is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Robin Williams, Twiggy, Peter O'Toole and Jimmy Cliff. Set in a fictional Caribbean banana republic, it follows a group of vacationers' attempts to create a luxury resort from a seedy nightclub, and the series of events that take place.
The film reunites director and cowriter Ramis with his SCTV co-stars Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, and Joe Flaherty, and includes additional SCTV performers Rick Moranis and Robin Duke. They play supporting roles in the film, as does cowriter Brian Doyle-Murray, a former SCTV staff writer. It was the final film of actor Adolph Caesar, who died in March 1986, four months before the film's release.
Jack Moniker is a Chicago firefighter who is injured on the job. Using his disability insurance payout, he retires to the small (fictional) Caribbean island of Saint Nicholas, and buys a small property. Anthony Croyden Hayes, appointed by the British crown as governor of St. Nicholas, is concerned more with vacationing than governing. Miss Phillipa Lloyd, who is visiting St. Nicholas with some friends, decides to stay permanently, and becomes Jack's girlfriend.
Jack befriends financially-troubled reggae musician Ernest Reed, and they form Club Paradise, which they market as a Club Med-style resort, complete with a brochure that features photographs of Jack in various disguises on every page. This attracts a handful of tourists, including Barry Nye and Barry Steinberg, who are there for the marijuana and the women.
Much of the film involves the tourists' comic misadventures adjusting to island life, and the low-rent facilities of Club Paradise. Also traveling to the island is The New York Times travel writer Terry Hamlin, who ends up spending most of her time in the company of Governor Hayes. Adding to the comedic content is suburban housewife Linda White, who is vacationing with her husband Randy, who, despite the very favorable surroundings and atmosphere, is not very randy.
Voit Zerbe plays a key role, as a developer who wants to force Jack and Ernest from their property so that he can build a massive high-end casino on the beach, as part of a deal that he is making with two business partners. To do that, he uses the help of the local prime minister, Solomon Gundy, and his men to cause trouble to have Club Paradise to close "legally". Jack and Ernest board Zerbe's yacht to provide some "useful intelligence" for Governor Hayes, by finding out what is going to happen to the future of St. Nicholas. They skin dive to the yacht, where they are captured by local police and thrown in jail. When Prime Minister Gundy's strong-arm tactics do not work, he orders a military takeover of the island. Ernest builds up a resistance force, and St. Nicholas is soon threatened with the possibility of civil war, which is averted at the last minute with assistance from Jack and Governor Hayes. As Gundy's takeover fails, Zerbe and his partners leave St. Nicholas and head for the Cayman Islands.
Harold Ramis's wife, Anne Ramis, has a cameo appearance as a travel agent.
Shooting took place in Jamaica, Chicago and Los Angeles from April to July 1985. The titular "Club Paradise" was a set constructed on Winnifred Beach in Portland Parish, while other scenes were shot in the city of Port Antonio. Warner Bros. Pictures planned to release it in early 1986, but held it back until July.