Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.
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I love Madonna. Swept Away's beautifully vibrant-colored visuals wholly fulfill my aesthetic appetite.Madonna is so hot like, anyone watching Swept Away who doesn't enjoy it because of Madonna's acting like, SHE'S IN A BIKINI THE WHOLE TIME! Don't be mad? Madonna's smoking hot in a bikini. There's your 15 bucks, bub.Madonna's so beautiful in Swept Away. If I were stranded on a deserted island with her........I would be really happy. Swept Away ---> movie good, check. movie fun, check. Madonna hot, super check.(Madonna is a better actress than Meryl Streep. She really is. Liz or Jeanne would be prettyyy fun to be on a deserted island with too. Jeanne more than Liz, no, Liz maybe a little more than Jeanne. I could think of something prettyyy fun we could do. Uuuuhhhhh, sex.... I don't know, but neither would compare with freaking Madonna)
I have seen worse than this and the movie is not the worst movie of all time. Maybe the critics have got wrong, maybe the movie will get better rating than now. But this movie really isn't so bad as some of you people thinks. Madonna wasn't the greatest actress in the leading role but it wasn't the end of the world. I have given 7 points to this movie. I have watched the movie two times all ready because I think it's so good. When I watched making of Swept Away, they had fun to make this movie. It wasn't so serious as making of The Shining was even that movie is really good, too! By the way, this is my rating from this movie and I liked the movie really much.
I want my money back, although I spent zero dollars to see this movie. Because after seeing this movie or the 15 minutes of the movie that I could stand before I had to turn it off; I felt cheated, like I had just purchased a defective product, and I would like to be reimbursed plus interest. Now, I realize that zero dollars typically accrues zero percent interest, but surely those 15 minutes of my life have a cash value; that's time out of my life I'll never get back and as I'm getting closer to the end of my life, surely we can base the interest off of how each moment of my life grows more precious as I approach the grave. I WILL ACCEPT A CHECK.
From Madonna's then husband Razzie winning director Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, Sherlock Holmes), I had heard negative things about this film, mostly about the leading actress, so I was dying to see how bad it was, or whether I may disagree with the reviews. Basically Amber Leighton (Razzie winning - and nominated - Madonna) is the beautiful forty year old rich, spoilt and arrogant socialite, she is married to Tony (Eight Below's Bruce Greenwood) but nothing makes her happy. Her husband has taken her on a private cruise from Greece to Italy with two other couples, including with friends Marina (Basic Instinct's Jeanne Tripplehorn) and Debi (Meet Dave's Elizabeth Banks) and their other halves. She gets angry at all the slightest things on the ship, such as the food being served, and she seems to take all her anger out on first mate Giuseppe Esposito (Razzie nominated Adriano Giannini), and he is trying really hard to deal with it. When a storm forces Amber into a lifeboat, alongside Giuseppe, both of them wind up stranded in the middle of the ocean, and eventually swept away shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. Giuseppe sees this as an opportunity to get his own back on the woman who has been bossing him around and making him really stressed, he forces her to become his slave and do washing, cleaning and fetching to earn caught food and water to drink. He is for a while very forceful and unforgiving towards Amber, but slowly as they spend more time waiting for help together they are developing feelings for each other, to the point when they have fallen in love. There is a point when one or the other think that going back to their lives on land is a mistake and it will tear them apart, but eventually this does have to happen for the sake of their survival. In the end they are indeed rescued by a ship, and Amber is forced to go back to her not very happy husband, while Giuseppe is heartbroken with his unsuccessful plan to propose to her. Also starring David Thornton as Michael, Michael Beattie as Todd, Yorgo Voyagis as Captain and George Antoni, Mr. Quereshi from Harry Hill's TV Burp as Chef. Many people will say that the only good acting Madonna has done is in Desperately Seeking Susan and Evita, and all say this is among the worst of her attempts, I didn't think she was completely awful, I thought in fact her character suited her, i.e. bitchy and self centred (like she can be), I agree with the critics Giannini does well getting his own back on her as the "master", but most of the other cast members, including reliable Tripplehorn and Greenwood hardly do much at all. The story I will agree is not all that original, it only came two years after Tom Hanks was Cast Away, so it is essentially the same sort of film, but with two people, no plane crash, and a hut on the island LOL, but there was a part of me that liked what was going on, I can see some of the reasoning for low ratings, but I didn't think it was an awful romantic comedy drama. It won the Razzie for Worst Picture, Worst Remake or Sequel, Worst Screen Couple for Giannini and Madonna, and it was nominated for Worst Screenplay, Worst 'Drama' of Our First 25 Years and Worst Picture of the Decade. Adequate!