Club Paradise
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13 Jan 2010

### Details

Director: | Harold Ramis
Writer: | Harold Ramis, Chris Miller
Producer: | Trevor Albert, Alan Greisman
Theatrical: | 1986
Rated: | PG-13
Studio: | Warner Home Video
Genre: | Comedy
Duration: | 1 hr 44 mins

Languages: | English
Subtitles: | French
Sound: | Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Aspect Ratio: | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)
Picture Format: | Widescreen
Discs: | 1
Region: | Region 1
Release: | Jan 1986

### Summary

Robin Williams went through a period in the mid '80s when he looked like he'd turned into the next Richard Pryor: yet another brilliant standup comic neutered by the script mills of the Hollywood studios. Indeed, Williams seems almost like a spectator in this film, reacting to a supporting cast extremely deep in talent doing what they can with the mediocre script by Brian Doyle-Murray and director Harold Ramis. Williams plays a heroic Chicago fireman, who is injured and retires after saving several lives in a fire. He takes his insurance settlement and buys a resort on a poor Caribbean island (the film was shot in Jamaica). He spends the rest of the time playing straight man to a gaggle of guests that includes such "SCTV" alumni as Rick Moranis, Andrea Gross, Eugene Levy, and Robin Duke, as well as Jimmy Cliff and Peter O'Toole. Occasionally rising to the level of mild amusement, "Club Paradise" is, disappointingly, little more than a series of hit-and-miss sketches strung together by the feeblest of plots. "--Marshall Fine"

### Credits

Trenton Allen | ... | Waiter at Royal St. Nick's
Jheanall Azan | ... | Friends & Rebels
Louise Bennett | ... | Portia
Antoinette Bower | ... | Pamela
Carl Bradshaw | ... | Cab Driver
Jay Bressler | ... | Fire Commander
Robin Williams | ... |
Peter O'Toole | ... |
Rick Moranis | ... |
Jimmy Cliff | ... |
Twiggy | ... |