Does anyone know of a good movie about kids on a deserted island?

I've been playing the 1999 game Survival Kids recently and really enjoying its theme. I'm in the mood to either watch a movie or read a book on a similar theme.

Does anyone know of an adventurous kids' movie (or even a book) that has a kid (or group of kids) as the main character and involves them lost in a deserted island, trying to survive on their own?

Lord of the Flies doesn't count, as it's not a kids' movie about adventure, but a dark movie about human nature.

Anyway, does anyone know an example that fits this description?

(Or if not an island, then lost in the wilderness or some other similar concept?)

edited 19th Mar '16 12:13:19 PM by BonsaiForest

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edited 19th Mar '16 12:15:44 PM by Quag15

Oh whoops. Thanks!

There's always the 1990 film Shipwrecked, based on the book Haakon Haakonsen. It's got pirates, too.

The Island series of YA books by Gordon Korman might be up your alley. Shipwrecked kids from a cruise rehab for troubled teens have to survive the wilderness and each other and then some throughout the course of the books.

Oh wow, Shipwrecked in particular looks fun! And it's by Disney, so it's gotta be a good, fun adventure movie. Awesome. I'll check it out, thanks!

And thanks for the book suggestion. It doesn't sound quite my thing, particularly the having to survive "each other" kinda thing. I mean, do these kids hate each other? Is it like Lord of the Flies 30% or something? Like, same basic ideas? I was hoping to move away from that.

But thanks for the suggestions. I plan to watch Shipwrecked!

One guy was a rich douchebag who no one can stand, two are twins whose arguing and fighting landed them in the hospital. They grow as people thankfully.

It could definitely be interesting in its own way, certainly. What did you think of the books?

I remember liking them when I read them. Granted, that was somewhere in the vicinity of 14 years ago.

The one non-plot related detail that has stuck with me all these years is that at one point they successfully kill a bird and try to boil it to eat, but the meat practically disintegrates in the water, which one of them points out means they accidentally made chicken soup.

Swiss family robinson had kids does that count

That movie had the most awesome tree house.

There was the film adaptation of The Black Stallion, but that was just one kid and a horse stranded on a desert island, so there wasn't any interplay between multiple (human) characters.

Hmm. These do sound interesting. Right now, I',m gonna check out Shipwrecked first.

In the meantime, I just got Ending 2 (out of 8) in Survival Kids, the ending where you die at sea on the raft as you didn't bring enough food. Heh.

I'm watching Shipwrecked right now. The dubbing from Norwegian to English is impressively on par with the mouth movements.

Well, I just watched Shipwrecked.

A boy lives in a poor family, and is picked on by bullies. When the bullies get the job that the boy was hoping to get, a job to pay off his family's debt, he decides he'll instead sail on a ship and work there to pay off the debt. Eventually he discovers that one of the people on the ship is a treacherous pirate who poisons the captain and takes over. And he also meets a stowaway girl. When a big storm strikes, the boy is separated from everyone on a deserted island (the girl and one of the men survived and they later rejoin the boy). It's less about survival on the island, though, then it is about pirate-type adventure.

Fun movie. It's not really about survival though. It briefly touches upon it, with the boy learning how to open coconuts and get their water, but it quickly moves away from the survival aspect and into exploration and pirates. Also, there's a shelter seemingly already on the island for the boy to use, as if the island was used by someone else prior.

Hmm... not quite what I was looking for, though enjoyable in a different way. I may have to look over the rest of the suggestions given here. Anyone else got any more?

The Blue Lagoon has a pair of teenagers that get shipwrecked and survive on an island without adult assistance.

Ah yeah, I did read about that one. It gets rather R-rated later on, though, right?

I do wonder if I should see it anyway, though, as an example of a serious, adult take on the concept.