Christopher Atkins

A Night in Heaven (1983)

[4] Christopher Atkins (The Blue Lagoon) and Lesley Ann Warren (Clue) star in this incredibly unfocused drama about a young community college teacher who enters into an affair with a handsome student failing her class. The tawdriness begins when she catches the student stripping at an all male-revue. He gives her a lap-dance and it’s all downhill from there. In curious subplots, we see the …

The Blue Lagoon (1980)

[6] There’s no denying the pervasive corniness of Randal Kleiser’s adaptation of The Blue Lagoon. Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins play teenagers who have grown up in isolation on a remote island after being shipwrecked as children. The film half-asses the characters’ sexual awakenings (what the film is all about) and never stops testing your suspension of disbelief. But the film still works as escapist …