Emma spots Dean outside watching her through the window. Emma attends the prom, while Dean only goes because his father encouraged him. Readjusting to everyday life, their relationship becomes strained and distant. Emma is thrust into a more popular position at school while Dean, still a semi-outcast, avoids approaching her in public. They are met by family, friends, and the media. As Emma and Dean's sexual relations continue, they share further intimate details, including a mutual desire to have children, but the difficulty of life on the island and concern about her family increasingly strain Emma.Īfter being stranded over 100 days, Emma and Dean are rescued by a tourist helicopter. With no trace of Emma or Dean being found, Jack and Barbara can no longer neglect their individual responsibilities and both return home. When questioned, he becomes irritable, but eventually admits he was hoping for closure over his mother's death, suffering guilt for inadvertently causing her fatal accident.
The morning after their sexual encounter, Emma finds Dean digging a grave for the skeleton. The two give in to their growing feelings by having sex. When Dean and Emma find a human skeleton, Dean calms an upset Emma by kissing her. Jack and Barbara both keep searching, and Jack hires a private rescue attempt. After an extensive search, the Trinidad government officially ends the effort. Emma reveals that her parents have predetermined her future without her ever questioning it. Dean's father, Jack, and Emma's mother, Barbara arrive in Trinidad. At first they are friends, but eventually their bond evolves into a romantic relationship. Together, they learn to build a fire, fish, and find food. Unsure if they will be rescued, Emma and Dean must rely on each other for survival. After discovering the island is deserted, they find the outgoing tide has washed away the dinghy. The pair drift to an island, avoiding dangerous rocks, with the dinghy's sole paddle. Wanting to avoid getting into trouble, Dean severs the line attaching the dinghy to the boat, only to discover there is no motor. Dean jumps into the water and helps her into a dinghy. During the party, Emma falls overboard when police arrive in a surprise raid. On their second night in Trinidad, Dean and Emma separately attend a boat party. After Dean's knife is confiscated, his father pulls strings to get his son back on the trip. The high school quarterback flirts with Emma, though she is instead interested in Dean, a loner who routinely gets into trouble and seldom socializes since his mother's death. Emma, a popular star pupil, has her life plans set out. Two high school students, Emma and Dean, are on a class trip to Trinidad to help build a school for less fortunate children. The film was co-produced by Sony Pictures, whose subsidiary Columbia Pictures financed the 1980 film adaptation and its 1991 sequel, but not the 1949 film version, whose rights are controlled by ITV Studios (successor-in-interest to the Rank Organisation's General Film Distributors, the company that released that version). Christopher Atkins, the male lead in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon, also appears in the film.
The setting is contemporary, whereas the previous films were all set in the Victorian era the lead characters were raised in normal society and are marooned as teenagers, rather than growing up on the island the island the main characters are stranded on is in the Caribbean, whereas the previous films took place in the Pacific Ocean and roughly equal time is devoted to the uncivilized world of the island and the human society the characters were born into. It was a major departure from previous Blue Lagoon films in several respects. Indiana Evans and Brenton Thwaites star in the film, which is based on the 1908 novel The Blue Lagoon and its previous film adaptations. Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is a 2012 American made-for-television romantic drama film that premiered on Lifetime on June 16, 2012.