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Director:
David Greenwalt
Writers:
Jonathan Lemkin (written by) and
Patrick Hasburgh (writer)
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Release Date:
14 January 1990 (USA) more
Genre:
Family | Adventure | Drama more
Plot:
Fifteen teens on a study program abroad have to learn survival techniques when they crash on an uncharted Malaysian island. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Can you say "pilot"? I knew you could. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Christopher Daniel Barnes ... Dave
Kate Benton ... Mrs. Anderson
Scott Bloom ... Stod

Sarah Buxton ... Karen
Charlotte Carpenter ... Newswoman
Alice Carter ... Marian

Kristin Dattilo
Gino De Mauro ... Larry

Corey Feldman ... Schenke
Chris Furrh ... Tommy
Stacy Galina ... Jill
Ann Marie Gillis ... Mrs. McCombs
Christian Jacobs ... Derf
Alan Koss ... Mr. Anderson
Sherrie Krenn ... Betsy

Christopher Lawford
Philip Linton ... Scott

Scott McGinnis
Michael Preston ... Rupe Murphy (as Mike Preston)
Markus Redmond ... Jackson
Michael Stoyanov

Ann Walker ... Mrs. D'Arienzo

Kiersten Warren ... Diana
Ken Zavayna ... Mr. McCombs
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Brazil:92 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:15 | Australia:G

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Filming took place on the back side of Santa Catalina Island at one of the remote beaches. more
Movie Connections:
References "Gilligan's Island" (1964) more
Soundtrack:
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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Can you say "pilot"? I knew you could., 4 March 2003
Author: Victor Field from London, England

Like many instalments of "The Disney Sunday Movie," "Exile" was all too obviously a pilot for a series (thus explaining the ending, as indicated by the other person to comment on this). And like the pilot of the plane in this TV movie, it crashed. (Ever since "Gilligan's Island," no one seems willing to try anything with even a slightly similar premise ever again - see also "The New People" in the late 1960s.)

"Exile" was another attempt by Patrick Hasburgh to shake off the "21 Jump Street" tag, but neither this nor the rightly short-lived "Sunset Beat" made his name away from Stephen J. Cannell (the latter is only notable for including a then unknown actor called George Clooney). In it, a group of teens and their teacher leave the US on the E.X.I.L.E. programme for a three month jaunt overseas, but the plane they've chartered to take them on the final leg has a disreputable pilot, and they wind up on an uncharted desert isle.

A complete bummer both intentionally and otherwise - not least thanks to the dialogue in Jonathan Lemkin's script ("Steve's dead, and Karen's borderline catatonic") - the movie's open ending and the lack of a series allows me to take it from there; I say they were rescued soon afterwards, thereby providing happy endings all round (except for Steve) - they got back home, and I didn't have to speculate on any further exploits of the Exilers. (Can Sarah Buxton pick 'em or what?)

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