Paradise (1982)

PARADISE  (1982)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Stuart Gillard
    Phoebe Cates, Willie Aames, Tuvia Tavi
In 1923, a small caravan sets out from Baghdad, bound for Damascus. Along the way, it's attacked by bandits, but a teenaged boy and girl escape and make their way by camel to an idyllic spot on what's presumably the seacoast of Palestine. There they go native "Blue Lagoon"-style, skinny-dipping, playing house, frolicking with the monkeys and boning up on matters of anatomy. A dopey juvenile romance, in which the bandits conveniently disappear for long periods of time, so the kids can hang out and goof around in way fewer clothes than any fair-skinned sane person spending time in a desert would wear. Visual distractions include some spectacular location scenery and the memorably bare-bottomed Phoebe Cates.