The Beach (film) The Beach (film) The Beach is a 2000 English-language drama thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was adapted for the film by John Hodge. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island Koh Phi Phi. Richard, a young American seeking adventure in Bangkok, travels in a drab travelers hotel in Khao San Road where he meets a young French couple, Françoise and Étienne, and he immediately becomes attracted to Françoise. He also meets
Smile (The Beach Boys album) of the "Smile" sessions are also dramatized in the 2014 Wilson biopic "Love and Mercy", featuring Paul Dano as Brian Wilson and Max Schneider as Van Dyke Parks. The 1993 science fiction novel "Glimpses" by Lewis Shiner contains a chapter in which the protagonist travels back in time to November 1966 and helps Wilson complete "Smile". References to "Smile", its bootlegs, and the Beach Boys are made in the 2006 novel "Eat the Document" by Dana Spiotta. Smile (The Beach Boys album) Smile (stylized as SMiLE) is an unfinished album by American rock band the Beach Boys that was projected