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Tropical Island
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5.1/10
IMDbWorst Supporting Actor | 1987 | Peter
Budget 15,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 12,308,521 USD
The film was originally intended to star Bill Murray and John Cleese. In the end, their roles were filled by Robin Williams and Peter O'Toole respectively.
Harold Ramis replaced John Landis as director.
Final cinema film of actor Adolph Caesar who died about four months before the movie opened.
The director and many of the main cast were alumni from SCTV (1976). These included actors Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, Robin Duke, director Harold Ramis and writer Brian Doyle-Murray.
The name of the charter plane company was "Joe's Airlines". Its slogan was "The Charter They Come". This blurb spoofed and referenced the earlier Jamaican movie The Harder They Come (1972) which starred Jamaican reggae singer Jimmy Cliff who also sings several songs on the soundtrack and co-stars in the movie.
"Phillipa Lloyd: What island are you from? Jack Moniker: Ellis, originally. Phillipa Lloyd: So, what do you do around here? After you left The Palms, they said you were a smuggler. Jack Moniker: No, I'm a snuggler."
"Jack Moniker: I heard about this guy in Cicero, well he stiffed a loanshark, so a couple of these guys got him, cut off his arm, beat him to death with the arm, and shoved it in a food processor and made a dip out of it. Then they served it to his family at his sister's wedding. And the sister loved it so much, she wanted the recipe. It's a crazy world, isn't it?"