Amanda Donohe nude squatting down doing some cooking before standing up and cleaning a tent. Then Amanda Donohoe topless sitting in a chair topless as a guy talks to her. Then we see her in few more topless and nude scenes while hanging out on the beach. From Castaway.
Castaway (1986)
Castaway is a mid-1980s film starring Amanda Donohoe (as Lucy Irvine) and Oliver Reed (as Gerald Kingsland), and is based on the book by Lucy Irvine. The premise for the film is that of Lucy answering an ad placed by Gerald in which he is looking for a female partner to live on a deserted island with him for a year. There are probably many things one could say about the film. It moves fairly slowly, which in and of itself isn’t a problem. There is a story that unfolds and needs time to do so. What one gets rewarded to is a treatment of the problems that come from two fairly different (and incompatibly so at that) people trying to live together under challenging circumstances. It becomes pretty obvious early on that Lucy is the only one to really take seriously the experiment of living off what the island provides. I get the impression from the film that Lucy is the one doing the bulk of the work of surviving, while Gerald is “busy” sulking over the lack of sexual attention that he apparently was expecting. Lack of proper nourishment leads to something else that is portrayed in the film: the disconnect between self-perception and reality. Since the film is told from Lucy’s perspective, it often appears that she is either oblivious to, or in denial of, the drastic loss of weight both she and Gerald suffer in the wake of a drought that diminishes their potential supply of food and water. Their eventual salvation comes at a price: Gerald effectively gets sidetracked with the trappings of civilization while Lucy persists to keep the experiment going.
There is nudity in the film, but it is treated very matter-of-fact. Since there is some sexual tension between the two protagonists, one can expect a couple sex scenes as well. Nothing is gratuitous though. It’s worth a viewing. Eventually I’ll get to finding the book, which I understand is a different experience than that of the film.