Lord of the Flies is a 1990 American thriller film adapted from William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies. It is the second film adaptation of the book, the first being the 1963 film Lord of the Flies. The film was a moderate box office success and critics gave it average reviews. An aircraft carrying young military school cadets returning home crash lands into the sea near a remote, uninhabited, jungle island in the Pacific Ocean. Among the survivors is the pilot, Captain Benson , who is seriously injured and delirious. Meanwhile, on the beach, an overweight cadet, whose real name is... never revealed, nicknamed “Piggy” , finds a conch seashell and takes it to the grouped cadets, who adopt it to signal the right to speak and be heard by the group. The most senior cadet, and one of the elder boys, Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Ralph , organizes a meeting to discuss surviving their predicament. Ralph and Jack emerge dominant, with Ralph's seniority in rank making him the one in charge. Tensions begin to grow between Ralph and Jack, however, and the group gradually becomes divided between the two leaders.
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| Release date: | March 16, 1990 |
| Directed by: | Harry Hook |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Screenplay by: | Sara Schiff |
| Adapted from: | Lord of the Flies |
| Genre: | Thriller, Adventure |