Robinson Crusoe is a 1997 AustralianAmerican action adventure film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller, and stars Pierce Brosnan in the titular role of Robinson Crusoe, based on Daniel Defoes classic novel.
The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaways autobiography. He grudgingly obliges and begins to get engrossed in the narrative.Robinson Crusoe Pierce Brosnan is a Scottish gentleman with experience in the Royal Navy and the British army. He accidentally kills his lifelong friend Patrick Damian Lewis in a duel over his childhood love Mary. Patricks brothers arrive and threaten Crusoe, but his page manages to buy time for an escape. Fleeing back to Mary, Crusoe subsequently ends up leaving for a year so that Mary can attempt to smooth over relations with Patricks family. ........
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