The Beach (novel) only day-dream about". "The Beach" was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet. The novel was at one point reportedly being considered for adaptation to a television series by "The Secret Circle" developer Andrew Miller. The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000,
The Beach House (film) hatching. The film is adapted from Mary Alice Monroe's 2002 novel "The Beach House". It was broadcast on "The Hallmark Channel" with a TV-G rating at 9:00 p.m. on April 28, 2018. The Beach House (film) The Beach House is a 2018 American television film directed by Roger Spottiswoode based on the 2002 novel by Mary Alice Monroe. Caretta "Cara" Rudland (Minka Kelly) loses her advertising job in Chicago and returns to the family beach house in South Carolina at the request of her mother, Lovie (Andie MacDowell). Not long after Cara arrives, Lovie tries to set her up with