Club Paradise is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and Jimmy Cliff. The film reunites director/co-writer Ramis with most of his SCTV co-stars -- SCTV cast members Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, and Robin Duke play supporting roles in the film, as does co-writer Brian Doyle-Murray, a former SCTV staff writer. Jack Moniker is a Chicago firefighter who gets injured on the job. Using his disability money, he decides to retire and live the good life in a small Caribbean island named Saint Nicholas. He buys a small... amount of property there and lives among other washed-up personalities such as Anthony Croyden Hayes . Appointed by the British crown as governor of St. Nicholas, Hayes is more concerned with vacationing than governing. Miss Phillipa Lloyd , who is visitng St. Nicholas with some sailor friends of hers, decides to stay permanently and becomes Jack's girlfriend in the process. He playfully refers to her as "Miss Philadelphia".
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| Release date: | July 11, 1986 |
| Directed by: | Harold Ramis |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Michael Shamberg |
| Music by: | David Mansfield, Van Dyke Parks |
| Cinematography: | Peter Hannan |
| Screenplay by: | Brian Doyle-Murray, Tom Leopold |
| Genre: | Comedy |